Harmony of Science 
and the Bible 

and the relation 
of man to each 



BY 



Rev. Jesse Williams 



The Foley Railway Printing Co., 

parsons, kansas 






Copyright by 
JESSE WILLIAMS 
1916 



/- 



JUN 30 1916 



©CI.A433547 



DEDICATION. 

To her who was the sweetheart of my 
boyhood days, the bride of my youth, the 
wife and companion of my manhood years, 
the uplift of my noblest and highest 
thoughts and the sustainer and helper of 
all my moral life, this little volume is lov- 
ingly and respectfully dedicated. 

THE AUTHOR. 



PREFACE. 



In presenting this little volume to the 
reading public, I make no claim to any- 
thing like an exhaustive discussion of the 
subjects discussed, for they are inexhaust- 
ible in the broad fields of thought they 
suggest, but my object has been to bring 
together in as brief a space as consistent 
with comprehension, a few of the main 
facts which go to prove the truths set 
forth in its narrow compass. 

It has been the object of the author to 
prepare a work suited to the needs of the 
common people and especially the Laboring 
Classes, who have not the time and under 
the burdens of this life have not the in- 
clination to look into these, which the 
writer thinks, are the greatest issues of 
this life. It has not been my object to 
in any way nearly satisfy an earnest in- 
quirer after knowledge connected with the 



PREFACE i 

subjects discussed, but rather to agitate 
and interest the mind of the reader suf- 
ficiently to cause him to want to know more 
and thereby cause him to investigate for 
him or herself. There has already been 
much written on these subjects but the 
wiitings are too lengthy to suit the common 
reader and too costly for the poor to ob- 
tain. 

That the reading of this little volume 
may biing to the heart and mind of the 
readers less dread and a better hope of the 
futuie and inspire them to higher and 
nobler thoughts and better lives, and that 
the blessings of him who is the author of 
every good and perfect gift may rest and 
abide with you, is the prayer and earnest 
desire of the author. 

THE AUTHOR. 



HARMONY OF SCIENCE AND THE 

BIBLE AND THE RELATION 

OF MAN TO EACH. 

THE TWO WORLDS. 

In starting out to write on the above 
topics, we come face to face with the in- 
disputable fact that there are two worlds, 
the Natural and the Spiritual. It seems 
with all our human intelligence as if it 
would be altogether unnecessary to offer any 
argument in proof of the existence of these 
two worlds, and yet there are persons who 
deny the existence of one or the other. 
So we will offer a few facts in connection 
with each that we deem fully sufficient to 
prove the existence of both. All our five 
human senses: seeing, feeling, hearing, 
smelling and tasting prove to us, beyond 
the possibility of a doubt, that theie is 
a natural world, and if you should take 
from us all these five senses, there would 
still remain one infallible witness which 



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should prove to our entire satisfaction the 
existence of the natural world, and that is, 
that quality of our mind which is insepar- 
able from our very existence, that quality 
which we call consciousness. We are con- 
scious that we live and have our being, 
and that one fact, if we will give heed to 
it, will prove to us beyond the possibility 
of a doubt, that there is a natural world 
with all its natural forms and changes of 
matter. 

And now let us consider for a brief space 
the facts that go to fully prove the exis- 
tence of a spiritual wx>rld; the first proof 
we wish to bring, is, the universal belief 
of mankind in a spiritual existence. Almost 
all mankind believe in a future life, that 
is a life after death, and we know if there 
is a life after death it must be a spiritual life 
and must belong to a spiritual world, and 
when we come to ask why this universal 
belief, the only answer is simply because 
all men know it. A great deal of our 
knowledge comes to us through education 
and outside influences, but the knowledge 
that we live is intuitive, that is, it is a 



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property of the mind and does not depend 
upon education or outside influences, and 
the same intuitive knowledge or conscious- 
ness that makes us know we have a natural 
life, makes us also know we have a spiritu- 
al life and hence fully proves the fact 
that there is a spiritual world, for we could 
have no natural life unless there Avere a 
natural world from which we might obtain 
and in which we might mature that life, 
neither could we have any spiritual life 
unless theie is a spiritual w*orld from which 
we may obtain and mature that spiritual 
life. So universal is the belief in a future 
and spiritual life that one of the greatest 
logicians and writers of the w r orld, the 
Apostle Paul, has declared that, "If in 
this life only, we have hope in Christ we 
are of all men most miserable," 1st Cor. 
XV 19. This universal belief in a spiritual 
life and a spiritual world is undeniably a 
property, inate principle, characteristic or 
attribute of the mind of man, so we deem 
it unnecessary to offer further proof of the 
existence of these two worlds at this place, 
but will refer to them often in the future 



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chapters of our little volume and we wish 
to thoroughly impress the mind of the 
reader with the truth of the existence of 
these two worlds, for they are the founda- 
tion upon which we expect to build all 
our teaching of the topics discussed in this 
little book; the necessity of having the 
thought of the existence of these two 
worlds, continually fixed in our minds, will 
readily be seen when we take into considera- 
tion the fact that science contains and 
teaches all the laws that govern the natur- 
al world, but so far as men have been 
able to learn up to this present time, 
teaches nothing about the spiritual world. 
While the bible contains and teaches a 
great deal concerning the laws that govern 
the natural world, it goes beyond the 
natural and teaches the laws that govern 
the spiritual world. 

So we have here set before us two great 
books, Science and the Bible. And that 
these two books are in perfect harmony, 
is that which we expect to prove to the 
satisfaction of all reasonable minded men 



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and women, who deem it worth while to 
read this little book. 

Now in the first place, let us take into 
consideration the sources from which the 
knowledge contained in these two books is 
obtained. First, Science is obtained by 
research and the stud)' of the laws that 
govern all matter, while the Bible is de- 
clared to be given by inspiration of God. 

Now if w T e give ample proof that these 
books are in perfect harmony, coming from 
such far different sources and given to us 
by a variety of different writers in different 
countries and different ages, each one will 
be an uncontrovertible witness that both 
are true, for if they are in perfect harmony 
when we prove the truth of one, we es- 
tablish the facts of the other. As we go 
on in our investigation of the topics on which 
we are writing, we will continue to find 
more and more proof of the existence of 
the natural and the spiritual, so we will 
ask the reader to give attention to the 
next thought that we meet in our inves- 
tigation, and that is, the principal substance 
that these two w T orlds contain. We wish 



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to state that the natural world is almost, 
if not altogether made up of matter or 
material substance, while the spiritual 
world is almost, if not altogether, made 
up of mind or immaterial substances. Now 
the question comes to us, which of these 
two substances that we call mind and mat- 
ter are dependent upon the other for its 
existence. 

There are three distinct answers that 
have been given to the above question. 

1st. That mind is dependent upon 
the organization of matter for its existence. 

2nd. That matter and mind are co- 
equal and neither are dependent upon 
the other for its existence. 

3rd. That mind is eternal and inde- 
pendent and does not depend upon matter 
for its existence. 

That the embodiment of mind with its 
attributes of justice, truth, righteousness, 
love, omniscience, and omnipotence the 
Bible calls God, and we claim that this 
third and last answer is the correct one, 
and matter is dependent upon mind for 



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its existence. And now let us examine 
both the bible and science and see if we 
are correct in the position we have taken. 
Here we come face to face with our topic^ 
the harmony of science and the bible. 

The Bible starts out with this definite 
declaratory statement: "In the beginning 
God created the heavens and the earth. 
And the earth was without form and void 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep 
and the spirit of God moved upon the face 
of the waters'' (i. e. Liquids) Gen. I. 
1-2. The divine and inspired historian in 
the above quotation simply gives a general 
description of the heavens and the earth, 
when God made them, and beginning with 
the 3rd verse the historian starts out to 
describe the manner and order of creation, 
which we wish to notice particularly, further 
on. 

But here and now we wish to turn to 
science and see if it corroborates this de- 
claration of the bible. 

Science has declared and its whole 
foundation rests upon this one great truth that 
there can be no effect without a cause. 



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Science has further proven beyond doubt 
that matter is inert, that is, it has neither 
life nor power of motion, therefore, is 
incapabable of acting only as it is acted 
upon by an outside force or power, this 
of course refers to the primary unorganized 
condition of matter in its original form 
(if it could have been said it had any 
form) if the above stated scientific fact be 
true, and of which there can be no doubt, 
then mind could not possibly depend up- 
on the organization of matter for its ex- 
istence, for there could not possibly be any 
organization of matter, if it was incapable 
of motion. This establishes then the fact 
beyond a doubt, that mind is eternal and 
self existing, entirely independent of matter 
so that the bible is correct when it says 
in the beginning, God. 

It is further proven by science, all 
scientists of any note agreeing, that there 
was a beginning, that there was a time 
when matter did not exist, at least in its 
present form and there is nothing in science 
to, in the least prove, that matter is eter- 
nal, while all the laws that govern matter 



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indicate that it is not, so when the bible 
declares that God created the heaven and 
the earth, there is nothing in science to 
dispute that declaration but much to sup- 
port it as we shall find as we continue our 
investigations. 

Now let us turn to the consideration of 
that proven fact by science, that there 
cannot be an effect without a cause and 
apply that fact to the teachings of science 
and see to what it will lead us. 

The Science of Geology teaches that the 
earth in the beginning, that is in its origin- 
al condition, was a molten mass of con- 
glomerated matter, very highly heated and 
in a liquid form and so continually chang- 
ing that it might be very properly said in 
the language of the bible, that it was 
without form this period of the earth's 
existence. Science calls the Azoic age, 
which means void of any form of life. 

The next inquiry that we may very 
properly make is, if the earth was without 
form and void in the beginning as both 
the bible and science say it was, and if 
matter is inert as science has proven it 

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is, and if there cannot be any effect with- 
out a cause, what has brought about the 
wonderful changes that the earth has 
passed through since that beginning, chang- 
es that make it so wonderfully different 
now, from what it was, in the beginning. 
The answer that the greater part of the 
scientists of the past have given and the 
theory they present is as follows: That 
there is "The first great" cause, and they 
attribute to this first great cause, ability 
and power to place fixed unchanging and 
eternal laws over this world of matter 
that control and operate it, so that it 
produces all the varied effects we see pro- 
duced in this natural world; in short, that 
all matter (i. e. nature) is governed by 
fixed eternal and unchanging laws. 

Now we will follow out and define this 
theory and see if it is not in perfect har- 
mony with the bible. The first inquiry 
we meet in following out this theory is, 
What is Law? As we have never seen or 
heard this question answered as plainly 
and briefly as we wish, we will give our 
own answer, as follows: Law is the ex- 



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pression of the will of a Power, either oral 
or written. Perhaps it would be more 

correct to say first, spoken then written 
or recorded, and just so far as the will 
or power that is behind that will or law, 
is able to enforce it, so far will it be 
effective and no further. We will take 
for illustration the law of prohibition in 
the state of Kansas, there was a time in 
the past when there was no law against 
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating 
liquors in the state of Kansas but the 
people of Kansas became tired and dis- 
gusted with the effects of the use of in- 
toxicating liquors, so a constitutional amend- 
ment to prohibit the manufacture and sale 
of intoxicating liquors was submitted to the 
voters of Kansas, and the voters went 
to the polls and voted, that is expressed 
their wills, and prohibition became a law. 
We ask was it effective, and anyone living 
in Kansas at that time can tell you it 
was not, for intoxicating liquors were 
sold and used in all the large towns and 
many of the small ones the same as before 
the law was spread upon the statutes of 



20 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

the state, and why? We answer because 
the moral power of the people behind the 
law was not sufficient to support or enforce 
it. But Governor St. John raised his elo- 
quent voice in temperance lectures all over 
the state and Old Mother Nation, God 
Bless her memory, got out with her hatchet 
and they two, with many other causes, 
agitated and educated the people up to a 
moral power, behind the law, sufficient to 
enforce it so thoroughly, that I feel per- 
fectly safe in saying that there is not a 
law in the statutes of Kansas, that is 
better or more thorughly enforced, than the 
law of prohibition. The distilleries have 
been driven out of the state and the saloons 
are all closed and the people of Kansas! 
Thanks to God and the voters of the state 
are a sober people. By the foregoing 
illustration we see that law is the expres- 
sion of the will of a power, and just in 
proportion to the power that expressed the 
law, is able to enforce it. So far is it 
effective. We stand at the foot of a great 
mountain lifting our eyes to its snow cap- 
ped peak, reaching far toward the sky 



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with its rugged rocky clifts, its great grotto- 
es, its canons and caves, completing a 
wonderful, magnificent structure of varied 
nature, and we ask, what is it, and the 
only answer is, simply the expression of 
God's will. We stoop and pluck a tiny 
flower at our feet, we admire its beauti- 
fully tinted petals, we inhale its sweet 
perfume. What is it? Still the same an- 
swer, the expression of God's will. We 
stand upon the beach, looking out 
over the mighty deep whose farther 
shore is far beyond our possible vision, we 
look upon its mighty rolling waves, dashing 
their fury on the rocky shore, foaming 
and dashing its rainbowed spray in every 
direction, tossing upon its bosom like play- 
things, the greatest ships that man can 
make, and what is it? Only the expres- 
sion of God r s will. 

And when the sun is below the western 
horizon and the darkness of night shuts 
out all these wonders and beauties from 
our eyes, we lift them toward the sky and 
behold innumberable solar and stellar worlds 
far exceeding our earth in beauty and 



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grandeur, as they travel upon the planes 
of their orbits with their centripetal and 
centrifugal forces, holding them in their 
places without the variation of a particle 
of space or a moment of time. We are 
filled with amazement and wonder, and 
cry out, Oh! what has caused all these 
glorious manifestations of artistic beauty, 
and there comes thoundering down the 
vista of ages the might voices of bible 
revelation, declaring, this is the expression 
of God's glorious will, and with God's 
wisdom and God's omnipotent power be- 
hind this will to enforce it, it becomes the 
eternal and fixed law that governs both the 
natural and spiritual worlds, and so effec- 
tive are these that the greatest and wisest 
teacher that ever taught in this world 
declared, that "it is easier for heaven and 
earth to pass away than one jot or tittle 
of the law to fail" Mat. V^18. 

So with science declaring that all nature 
is governed by the eternal and fixed laws 
of the ' 'First great cause/ ' with omnipotent 
power behind them to enforce them, and 
the bible declaring that God, is that first 



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great cause, we find them in perfect har- 
mony, and each, bearing testimony to the 
facts of the other, prove them both to be 
true. 

The next thing that we meet in consider- 
ing the harmony of science and the bible 
is the age of the world. 

Does science and the bible agree as to 
the age of the world? Many learned stu- 
dents of both science and the bible, have 
claimed that they do not, but in this we 
think we will be able to prove to the mind 
of any reasonable thinker that they are in 
perfect harmony, and that they do not 
disagree in the least. 

First we will examine the theories taught 
by science. Scientists have divided the 
creation and supplying the world with 
plant and animal life into four grand 
epochs, ages or periods of time. 

First the Azoic age or time, containing 
neither plant nor animal life, Azoic meaning 
without life or void of life. 

Second time or age, the Palaeozoic, 
meaning the beginning of plant and animal 
life in their lowest order. 



24 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

Third age, Mesozoic or reptillian age, 
a higher order of life and, 

Fourth, Cenozoic time or age when 
animals, called mammals, were created, 
finishing up the age, with the creation of 
man. 

The bible divides the ages of creation 
into six periods of time which in the lan- 
guage of the bible are called days. 

Now let us examine and see if there is 
any real difference between these four 
ages, given by Geologists, and the six 
days given by the bible. 

In the first place all scientists agree 
that the earth in the beginning was very 
hot, simply a molten mass of matter, 
containing all the liquids and solids that 
constitute earth, sea and air, and during 
this age, while the earth was cooling, crust- 
ing, and soiling its surface, so it would 
be possible for it to sustain life, either of 
plant or of animal, all Geologists call the 
Azoic, or age, void of life. How long this 
age lasted no geologist pretends to say 
for there is nothing either in earth, sea 
or air, that has ever been discovered, that 



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will give any data upon which to build 
an opinion as to how long this Azoic age 
lasted, but all geologists agree that it was 
a very, very long time, perhaps millions 
and millions of years as men count time. 
As we have said, all scientists give this period 
of time in one age, while the bible divides 
it into three days. 

Now the question that will, no doubt 
arise in the mind of the reader is, does 
science and the bible agree, as to this 
chronological event? We answer it does, 
if we give the proper meaning to the word 
day. 

Now we all know that a word given by 
the human voice is simply a sound express- 
ing the sign of an idea, and what ever 
idea the speaker or writer has in his mind, 
when he speaks or writes, is what the 
word spoken or written means, but in 
order that we be able to understand each 
other, and that there be no confusion when 
we speak or write, we have all agreed that 
we give to the words, the meaning that 
our best speakers and writers give to them, 
so the question comes to us what did the 



26 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

inspired writer mean by he word day, 
when he wrote the history of Creation. 
Did he mean a period of twenty-four 
hours? A great many of our best theo- 
logians of the past and some of the pre- 
sent time, claim that the did, but we 
think this is very incorrect. We think 
the word Day as used by the divine his- 
torian in the bible means simply an age 
or period of time of indefinite length, and 
its length can only be determined by the 
predicate of the sentence, in which it 
occurs as the subject, and its length is 
measured by the time it takes to do that 
which is said to be done on the day mentioned. 
Now we will call the attention of the reader 
to the first and second chapters of Genesis, 
and study them closely and see if we are 
not correct. 

We notice first, that the inspired writer 
in the first chapter divides the work of 
creation into six days, and in the second 
chapter and fourth verse, he says they 
were all created in one day, saying as fol- 
lows. ' 'These are the generations of the 
heavens and the earth, when they were 



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created in the Day that the Lord God 
made the earth and the heavens. " Here 
we plainly see that the day used in the 
second chapter, is just as long as the 
six days, used in the first chapter, proving 
the definition we gave, to be true, that a 
day is just as long as it takes to do the 
work said to be done on that day. The 
next place where the word day is used to 
which we wish to call the attention of 
the reader, is in Gen. 111-17 and is as fol- 
lows. "But of the tree of knowledge of 
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, 
for in the day that thou eatest thereof, 
thou shalt surely die. Now if we read on, 
we will find that Adam lived several 
hundred years after he ate the forbidden 
fruit, and begot sons and daughters. So 
we know that the writer could not have 
meant, day of twenty-four hours, but an 
indefinite age, for the day he spoke of 
began when Adam died and is not ended 
yet, for Adam is still dying in his posterity, 
so that Day will not end until the last 
son and daughter of Adam's race have died. 
We will let that suffice, for the old testa- 



28 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

ment, and turn to the new, and we find 
it recorded in the gospel by St. John 
VIII-56., that Jesus said to the Jews, 
"Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see 
my Day, and he saw it and was glad." 

Now we do not believe there is any of 
our readers that will think for a moment 
that Jesus meant any twenty-four hours 
of his life, but that he meant by the word 
day, the whole of his life, from the time 
he began to reign, until he has put the last 
enemy under his feet, and has delivered 
the Kingdom up to his Father. We might 
go on and speak of the day of salvation, 
the day of the Resurrection, the day of 
Judgment, for these are all figurative Days, 
and do not mean twenty- four hours, but 
an indefinite period of time, an age, and 
so on. 

So we will now turn to the language of 
the present time, and see if we do not find 
the word Day, used in the same sense 
and manner. We say that Benjamin 
Franklin was a great diplomat in his day; 
that Washington and Lincoln were great 
statesmen in their day; surely there is 



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no one that will suppose for a moment that 
we mean a day of twenty-four hours, but 
we do mean, the whole time that Franklin 
was a diplomat, and Lincoln and Washing- 
ton were statesmen. So in a figurative 
sense, meaning a very indefinite period of 
time. 

Under ordinary circumstances we should 
deem the foregoing evidence in regard to 
the meaning of the word day sufficient, 
but so long has the idea been taught, that 
the days of creation were days of twenty- 
four hours, that we will endeavor to give 
other proof, that the word day used in 
the history of the creation of the world, 
was age or periods of time and indefinite 
in length. 

Let us now notice the order of creation 
as given by the inspired historian. 

The first thing that we wish to notice 
is, that it was at least the third day, 
before the sun was created, our bibles say 
the fourth day, but we think this is an 
error, as we will undertake to show further 
on, suffice it here to say that it was at 
least the third, so the first two days 



30 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

had nothing to divide them, so they must 
have been ages without anything to denote 
their length, and if the first two days were 
ages, why not all? 

We presume there is no one that will 
doubt the fact, that our bible was written 
for the whole world, now we know that 
in the Arctic and Anarctic regions they 
have six months of day and six months of 
night, and no day of twenty-four hours 
at all, so that even on our earth, the days 
are very indefinite in their length. 

So from the foregoing facts, which we 
have had under consideration, we feel that 
w r e can say without any hesitation, that 
the word day used in the bible in giving 
the history of the creation of the world, 
means an age of indefinite length, and it 
may mean a thousand years, or it may 
mean millions and millions of years, and 
if this be true, we are still able to declare 
that science and the bible are in perfect 
harmony, as to the age of the world. 

The next thing to which we wish to call 
the attention of the reader is, the harmony 



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of science and the bible in regard to the 
order of creation. 

We have already shown that they both 
agree in the fact that the earth was in a 
chaotic condition, that it was without 
form, and void of any life, and truly 
1 'darkness was upon the face of the deep/' 
This first age of the world, science calls 
the Azoic age, meaning void of life. The 
bible divides this age into three ages. 
In the first two verses of the first chapter 
of Genesis, the inspired writer gives a 
description of the world when it was 
first created, then in the third verse, he 
begins to describe the order or process of 
creation as follows: And God said let 
there be light and there was light, and what 
is light? When God created light he must 
have created a substance, else there would 
be no creation. Then what is light? We 
believe it to be all matter in a perfectly 
dissolved state, and when God created light 
he created all the substances that enter 
into the making of our world, this planet, 
and also all that are contained in all the 
solar and stellar worlds, that when God 



32 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

said let there be light, all space or im- 
mensity was filled with one glorious flam- 
ing blaze of light, and that all matter in 
its original form, when it was first created 
was light, at least, the light was the first 
form of matter that was visible, and the 
first form that is comprehensible, or in any 
way explainable. Whether there is yet 
a more subtile form of matter, like ether, 
we cannot know, neither does it concern 
us, for as yet, we are incapable of com- 
prehending it, but this we know, through 
the revelations of the science of chemistry, 
that when matter is completely dissolved, 
the last thing knowable is light, for in- 
stance, we light a match, and if confined 
so that none of its substances can escape, 
and the heat is great enough, everything 
is consumed and changed into light, and 
that which is true of the match, is true of 
all forms of matter, when they are com- 
pletely dissolved and returned to their 
original form and all we can see is light, 
therefore, we conclude that when God said 
"let there be light and there was light," 
he created all matter in a disolved trans- 






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lucent fluid form and during the remainder 
of the first day or age, he divided the 
light from the darkness, that means he 
divided the light and formed it into solar 
and stellar worlds, and the shadow of 
these worlds made the darkness, and God 
called the light day and the darkness he 
called night, and God saw the light that 
it was good, but nothing either good or 
bad is said of the darkness, for it being 
only shadow, and not substance, could 
be neither good nor bad, while all things 
that God made were declared to be good, 
that is perfect, and on the second day the 
inspired writer goes on to describe how 
God divided the waters or the fluids into 
bodies, and changed them or rather, more 
properly formed them into worlds. And 
now we come to consider the work done on 
the third and fourth days, or ages. And 
to get directly at what we w T ish to say, 
we wish to first assert that we think the 
third and fourth periods or days, have 
been misplaced in our bibles, we think 
the third day should be placed where the 
fourth is, and the fourth where the third 

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34 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

is placed. This change could be made 
without doing any violence to our bible, 
for it would not add to or take from it 
a single word, but simply change the 
grammatical construction, and the gram- 
matical construction of our bible, is no 
part of its divine origin, but is simply the 
work of man. When we take into con- 
sideration the manner in which our bible 
was given to us, we can very readily see 
how easily this error could have been made. 
Now let us take into consideration for 
a brief space, the history of our bible. 
According to the best information that we 
can obtain, the book of Genesis was written 
by Moses, the first great leader of the 
Jewish (Hebrew) race or nation, and was 
written in Egypt upon Papyrus, from 
which our word paper is obtained. This 
Papyrus was made from the inner bark 
peeled from reeds growing upon the river 
Nile, and glued together transversly then 
written upon, and rolled together. In 
place of being made into book form as 
at the present day, the writing was done 
in Cuneiform, or wedge shaped characters 



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used in ancient writings, and was written 
without any regard to, or division of the 
writing into words, sentences, verses or 
chapters, like this: "in the beginning God- 
created the heavens and the earth" and the 
grammatical construction of our bible has 
since all been added, for the purpose of 
making it easier to study and understand, 
and no student can deny that this gram- 
matical arrangement is a very great help. 
Now when we take into consideration, 
how often these ancient rolls were rolled 
and read and re rolled, we can see how 
easily they might be torn apart, and the 
pieces be misplaced or changed, so that 
the third day might be placed where the 
fourth day should be, and vice versa. 

Now science teaches us that life cannot 
exist upon this earth without the light and 
heat of the sun, but according to the 
arrangement of our bible it is declared it 
did exist, long before the sun was created, 
but when we correct the error in the chang, 
ing of the third and fourth days or ages, 
of creation, we find we have perfect har- 
mony of science and the bible. And as 



36 SCIENXE, THE BIBLE 

this is the only instance in all the order 
of creation where there is the least in- 
harmony between the bible and science, 
we think that all scholars and bible students 
w T ill agree with us, that the above change 
should be made. Under the foregoing 
airangement we find science and the bible 
in perfect harmony up to the fourth day 
of creation, which corresponds with the 
Azoic age of science. Then begins the 
Palaeozoic age of science, in which vege- 
table and animal life in the sea began. 
When the bible says, "God said," Let the 
Earth bring forth plant life, and the sea 
or waters bring forth abundantly,'' fish 
and bird life, corresponding perfectly with 
science up to the Cenozoic age of science, 
and the sixth day or age of creation as 
set forth in the bible. Then began the 
Cenozoic or mammalian age, in which 
science declares all the higher animal life 
began, and the bible says, God on the 
sixth day, created all the higher order of 
animal life, and in the end of the sixth 
day, i. e. age, God created man and science 



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declares in the end of this Cenozoic age 
man appeared on the earth. 

When we look at this perfect agreement, 
between science and the bible, as to the 
order of creation, we are made to wonder 
how two histories of creation, depending 
upon such far different sources for their 
information could so perfectly agree, and 
the only reason that can be given, is, that 
they are both true, and each one proves 
the truth of the other, and the bible and 
science are in perfect harmony. Thus 
far we have studied but two branches 
of science, the science of Geology or the 
knowledge of the construction of the earth, 
and the science of Chronology, or know- 
ledge of time, and now we will notice some 
of the other branches of science. 

First. The science of Mathematics. We 
might here state that the bible does not 
lay any claim to be a text book of science. 
We neither claim it to be; the only claim 
we make for it, is, that it is in perfect 
harmony with all the branches of science. 
Wherever it has to do with any of the 
sciences in the carrying out of any of its 



38 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

designs, and problems, in order that out- 
readers may more readily understand us 
we wish to say here that the science of 
Mathematics, is based upon just three 
propositions. The first is a straight line, 
and its only dimension is length, having 
neither breadth, thickness nor depth; the 
second has length and breadth, while the 
third has length, breadth and thickness. 
And upon these three propositions are 
based all mathematical calculations. Some 
mathematicians have claimed there is a 
fourth proposition, but it can neither be 
explained nor demonstrated and is never 
used in mathematical calculations. 

With this brief explanation of the science 
of mathematics, we will now take up some 
of the uses of mathematics in the bible. 

First, we wish to call the attention of 
the reader to the construction of Noah's 
Ark. We do not wish to particularize 
upon the Ark, but will ask the reader if 
interested, to study it at his convenience. 
Its history is given in Gen. VI 14 to 22. 

We will pass on to the setting up of the 
Tabernacle by the children of Israel under 



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the instruction of Moses, in the wilderness. 
Before we proceed to examine the taber- 
nacle, we wish to call the attention of the 
reader, to the instructions that God gave 
to Moses as to the construction of the 
Tabernacle, and its furnishings, for God 
said to Moses, 'See thou do it according 
to the pattern showed thee in the mount.' ' 
Exo. XXV-40 XXVI-30 Heb. VIII-5. 

Paul says in the last above reference 
that the pattern showed Moses, were hea- 
venly things, proving the statement we made 
in the first pages of this book, that the 
spiritual and the natural worlds w T ere 
alike. For if the things showed Moses 
in the mount were heavenly things they 
were spiritual things, without referring in 
any particular way to the furniture or 
furnishings of the Tabernacle, suffice it to 
say they were all perfect in their artistic 
construction, and the Tabernacle itself 
was a perfect geometrical figure. Every 
line, every curve and every square is in 
perfect harmony with mathematical mea- 
surements, and there is not a problem in 
mathematics that cannot be solved by a 



40 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

proper use of the geometrical lines, and 
measurements, used in the construction of 
the Tabernacle. So we see that the 
bible is in perfect harmony with the science 
of mathematics in the construction of the 
Tabernacle. 

Next we will refer briefly to the Temple 
built by Solomon, it is not necessary to 
go into any extensive description of the 
Temple as everyone in the least way 
familiar with its history knows that in mathe- 
matical proportions it was perfect, and so 
perfect were all its measurements that 
though the material used for its construc- 
tion, was prepared in different places, 
when brought together every part and 
piece fitted so perfectly that no hammer 
was needed and it is said by history that 
there was no sound of a hammer heard 
in its building, and there w^as one stone 
that the builders thought useless and 
rejected it, but in finishing the building 
they found the place for that stone was 
the head of the corner, and it fitted per- 
fectly into the place for which it was 
prepared. The oldest and most widely 



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know secret organization, whose members 
are in almost all the countries and nations 
of the world, the order of Freemasonry, 
was organized at or just prior to the build- 
ing of the Temple, and all the members of 
that order, and their number is legion, 
known that the Temple was built on 
perfect mathematical measurements, and 
the square and the compass, which are 
the emblems of that order are the founda- 
tion of all mathematical calculations. With 
all this great company of witnesses, we 
think it is unnecessary to offer any other 
proof that the bible, and the science of 
mathematics are in perfect harmony. 

The next branch of science to which 
we desire to call attention is the science 
of Astronomy, primarily astrology or know- 
ledge of the stais. As we have offered 
so much proof already of the harmony of 
science and the bible, we will notice but 
one place in the bible that bears directly 
upon this subject, and that is found in 
the book of Job XXVIII-31. The first 
verse of the above reference says, "then 
the Lord answered Job out of the whirl- 



42 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

wind." This whirlwind is doubtless figura- 
tive speech, and means a powerful mani- 
festation of God's presence. We know 
that the wind is used often in our bible 
to represent the power and life of the 
spiritual world, as it is the power and life 
of the natural world, we are told in Gen. 
1 1-7 that when the Lord God had formed 
man of the dust of the ground, he breathed 
into his nostrils the breath of life, which 
simply means that God imparted unto man 
a personal spiritual life, as is possessed by 
the inhabitants of the spiritual world, 
and in the gospel by St. John 1 1 1-8. 
Jesus said unto Nicodemus. 'The wind 
bloweth where it listeth (R. V. pleaseth) 
and thou heareth the sound thereof, but 
canst not tell whence it cometh and whither 
it goeth, so is everyone born of the spirit. " 
In these two above quotations the wind is 
used as a figure to represent the creation 
or first birth of man and the recreation or 
second birth, whereby man is made com- 
plete in the image and likeness of God 
who created him. With the above facts 
before us, we arrive at the conclusion, 



AND MAX 43 

that as the whirlwind is the greatest man- 
ifestation of the power of the wind, so when 
the bible says, "The Lord answered Job 
out of the whirlwind/' it simply means that 
the Lord answered Job by a powerful 
manifestation of his spiritual presence, and 
in the foregoing reference said unto him 
"Canst thou bind the Sweet influences of 
the Pleiades, i. e. (seven stars). " 

Now let us examine this language of the 
Lord to Job, and try to find out what it 
means. 

First, we know that the word bind means 
to confine or hold, and the word influence 
means to draw r or have power over one, 
to control. This word, influences, is changed 
to the word cluster and is perhaps a more 
correct translation. When we hear 

the word cluster there comes into our minds 
the vision of a bunch of Grapes, with all 
its little stems going out from the parent 
or center stem, and holding every grape in 
its proper place, so is the meaning of this 
word influence or cluster, It means that 
the Pleaides are the center of the universal 
creations of God, and they hold all the 



44 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

solar and stellar worlds within the plains 
of their orbits, with such perfect control, 
that our Astronomers can calculate years 
ahead, their exact positions. When we 
take into consideration all the above facts 
we are made to wonder how Job with his 
limited facilities for learning the science 
of Astronomy could have known them, 
and the only conclusion we can arrive 
at is, that it came through the direct in- 
spiration of God, as Job says it did. 

Now we turn to the science of astronomy 
and see if it verifies the above facts. 
We find that many of our latest and best 
astronomers are agreed in believing, that 
halcyon, (or Alcion) the center star of the 
Pleades is the center star of the known 
universe, and all solar and stellar worlds 
are held in their places by its attractive 
gravitating powers, showing beyond any 
reasonable doubt that science and the bible 
are in perfect harmony. 

The next branch of science to which we 
desire to call attention is the Science of 
logic, which in its conclusions embraces 
the art of reasoning. 



AND MAX 45 

We think it altogether unnecessary to 
enter into any lengthy argument concerning 
the harmony of the science of logic and the 
bible, for the whole bible from the first 
verse of Genesis to the last verse of Revela- 
tions, is perfect in all its logical conclus- 
ions, and for a wonderful display of grand- 
eur and beauty of logic, we refer the reader 
to the writings of the Apostle Paul. Among 
all the writers ancient or modern, there 
has never been one that equaled the 
Apostle Paul as a logician. Now take for 
example two of his epistles, the one to the 
Romans and the other to the Hebrews. 
And here we fearlessly and unhesitatingly 
say, we do not believe there is any sane- 
minded person, that will follow him in 
these two Epistles with the full powers of 
their human reason, as he reasons from 
known facts in the natural world, to the 
unknown facts of the spiritual world, that 
can avoid, fully endorsing his logical 
conclusions. 

With all the foregoing facts analyzed 
and compared and measured side by side, 
we feel perfectly free to say that all who 



46 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

read them must agree with us when we 
say that science and the bible, are in such 
perfect harmony, that there is not a single 
disagreement between them, in so far as 
the researches of science have been able 
to go. And yet this is not all, for the 
bible goes far beyond science in its de- 
claration of facts connected with the 
spiritual world that the teachings of science 
have not been able to reach, one is the 
miracles recorded in the bible, and the 
other is the Prophecies. 

And here we are met with another ques- 
tion, are these contrary to science, are they 
out of harmony with it? and with all the 
explanations and proofs given in the fore- 
going, we answer we are sure they are not. 
We know that many of the so called 
higher critics of the present day, claim 
that they are and have tried to furnish 
proof to establish their claim, but the proof 
is so weak and flimsy we hardly think 
it worth noticing, yet lest they cause the 
weak to doubt, we will notice some of 
these so called higher criticisms, analyzing 
them, and see what they amount too. 



AND MAX 47 

First we will call attention to the maracle 
recorded in the book of Jonah, which is 
commonly called the miracle of the whale 
swallowing Jonah. We choose the book of 
Jonah, because we think this book has 
probably called forth more criticism, than 
any book of the bible. 

And now we will take a synoptical view 
of the narrative of the aforesaid miracle. 
We are told in the narrative, that God 
said to Jonah, "arise and go unto that 
great city Nineveh, and preach unto them, 
4 'just forty days and Nineveh shall be 
destroyed/' Jonah did not want to go, 
so he undertook to flee from the presence 
of God. He went to Joppa, and found a 
ship going to Tarshish, and took passage 
upon it, and out on the sea they were 
overtaken by a terrible storm, and the 
ship master and all his sailors were badly 
scared. Thinking the ship would be brok- 
en to pieces and all would be lost, now 
these sailors believed there was a cause 
for this storm, and in seeking to find 
out this cause, they accused Jonah of being 
the cause, and he confessed that he was 



48 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

the cause, and if they would cast him into 
the sea, the storm would cease. They 
very much hated to do this, but when 
with all their efforts to reach the shore, 
they failed to do so, they finally threw 
Jonah into the sea, and the storm ceased. 
And now we come directly to the narra- 
tive of the miracle. It goes on to say 
how the Lord had prepared a great fish to 
swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was three 
days and three nights in the fish, and 
Jonah repented his folly, and praying unto 
the Lord for forgiveness, the Lord answered 
him and caused the fish to swim to the 
shore and disgorge Jonah on land. 

Now we believe this to be a fair state- 
ment of the much criticised miracle re- 
corded in the book in Jonah. 

And now we will notice some of the main 
criticisms offered against the truth of the 
above miracle. 

First, it is claimed that the throat of 
a whale is too small to swallow a man. 
The narrative does not say it was a whale, 
but it says, a great fish. Yet in order 
to give the critics all the ground they wish 



AND MAN 49 

for their criticisms, we will admit it may 
have been a whale, and in the second place 
the critics claim that a man could not 
possibly live for three days and three 
nights in a fish, that the gastric juices of 
the stomach would dissolve and digest 
him in the half of that time, this we also 
admit might be true and in the third 
place they claim that no whale would 
approach the shore close enough of its 
own accord, to disgorge a man upon it, 
this we also admit. 

Now with all these admissions, we will 
turn to science and the bible and in the 
light of all their proven facts, examine the 
above criticisms and see what they amount 
too. The fact that in the first pages of 
this book we proved by both science and 
the bible that God created all the fishes 
of the sea and gave them sufficient in- 
stinct to propigate their species and procure 
their food, and that God did create man 
giving to him life and the power of reason. 

Now if God did this, could he not pre- 
pare a fish, (for the bible says God pre- 
pared the fish) to swallow a man, and 

(4) 



50 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

preserve his life for three days in that 
fish, or for three years if need be, and 
could he not cause that fish to swim to the 
shore and disgorge the man upon it? 

According to all the rules of the science 
of logic we say he could, and all these 
criticisms are not against the miracle but 
simply against the power of God. 

We will next notice the miracle of the 
raising or resurrection of the dead. Among 
most people this is held to be the greatest 
miracle, calling forth the greatest mani- 
festation of divine power. And yet when 
we come to consider that all miracles are 
the result of the application of God's 
powers and that God is omnipotent in 
power, we know that there can be no de- 
grees in that power. 

It has been claimed by the critics that 
the miracle of raising the dead is contrary 
to all the scientific laws in the natural 
world. They claim that all life both of 
plant and animal is originated by a pro- 
ductive germ, that it, through growth 
and development, arrives at maturity, re- 
produces its kind, then passes through 



AND MAX 51 

the age of decay, and ends in death, from 
which there is no resurrection. Oh how 
inconsistent is such an argument! When 
we know that almost all plant life dies 
in the fall of the year, and passes through 
the winter of death in the grave, and in 
the spring, under the influences of warm 
sunshine and shower, all nature is resurrect- 
ed, and tree and shrub, plant and flower 
spring into new life, vigorous and beauti- 
ful. And also many animals and especially 
insects pass through their season of death, 
and are brought into new life. Who is it 
that has not seen the caterpillar wrap it- 
self in its cocoon grave, pass through 
its season of death, and then bursting from 
its cocoon grave, float through the air on 
beautifully painted wings, gathering its 
food from the sweets of many a flower. 
In the midst of all the above known facts, 
it seems strange, that anyone of ordinary 
understanding could deny the truth and 
validity of miracles. 

And now we will consider briefly the 
Prophecies of the bible. The critics of the 
bible claim the Prophecies are contrary to 



52 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

logic, and Psychology or science of the 
soul or mind. That there is no human 
soul or mind, that can look into the future 
and foretell its events and we admit this; 
but these critics in this, as in all their 
other criticisms, leave God entirely out 
of their consideration. 

We wish to first call attention to this 
reasonable conclusion, that an all wise and 
benevolent God, creating man in his own 
image and likewise, endowing him with 
human reason and intelligence, making 
him responsible for all his actions, would 
certainly reveal unto man, the circumstances 
of his origin, and further would reveal 
unto him something of his future, a very 
large and perhaps the largest portion of 
the prophecies of the bible have already 
been and are being, so definitely fulfilled, 
that there is no ground left for a reason- 
able doubt of their truth and veracity. 

And in conclusion we will say that there 
is no one having ordinary intelligence but 
must know that God, who is omnipotent 
in power can reveal unto man all things 
he desired him to know. Therefore we 



AND MAX 53 

reach this final undeniable conclusion that 
to deny the truth and veracity of the 
miracles and prophecies of the bible is, 
to deny the omnipotent power of God. 
And for any one to do this he must say 
in his heart there is no God, and among 
all men there is only one class of indivi- 
duals that do this, and we all know it is 
perfectly useless to undertake to reason 
with that class. Having as we think in 
the foregoing array of facts, given such 
an amount of proof of the harmony of 
science and the bible that no one can 
longer doubt, we here close the invest- 
igation of the first clause of our subject 
and pass to the second. 

The Relation of man to each. 

In undertaking to show the relation of 
man to Science and the bible we meet 
this question. "What is Man?" 

With all our present environments, this 
question may seem entirely useless, and 
yet, though the question is as old as the 
human race, we are ready to affirm, that 
it has never been fully answered. For as 
we have said in the first pages of this 



54 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

little book, there is no man, no, nor any 
number of men, be they ever so wise and 
learned, that can analyze and explain the 
origin, growth, and final development of 
a human soul, and yet though we cannot 
hope to answer the question in full, we 
will give our readers all the facts we have 
been able to obtain through years of 
study and investigation of that question. 
In the first place, we wish to call the at- 
tention of our readers to the fact, that, if 
we wished to learn all about a machine 
that was very complicated in its construc- 
tion, we would go to the inventor, and if 
we could not do that, we would endeavor 
to learn all that had been written about 
its construction, and w^e would doubtless 
first want to find out what the inventor 
himself had said or had written about it. 
So we call attention to the oldest records 
that we have as to the creation of man 
which are upon good authority, said to 
have been given by the creator or maker 
himself. We find this recorded in the bible 
Gen. 1-26, and is as follows "And God said, 
let us make man in our image after our 



AND MAX 55 

likeness and let them have dominion over 
the fishes of the sea and over the fowls of 
the air and over the cattle and over all 
the earth and over every creeping thing 
that creepeth upon the earth." 

In the Text that we have quoted the in- 
spired writer gives us a brief history of the 
creation of man, but says nothing as to 
the manner of that creation, or the pro- 
cess, or the material used in the creation 
or making of man, but in Gen. 1 1-7 he 
enters into a full description of how man 
was made as follows: "And the Lord 
God, formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and man became a living 
soul." At a casual glance, this description 
may seem so brief as to be scarcely com- 
prehensible, yet when we take each word 
and sentence separately, and properly an- 
alyze and define them, we find it to be 
very complete, and easily understood. In 
the first place we notice that there are 
three distinct and separate operations in 
the making of man and these three acts 



56 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

are so distinct from each other that each 
one becomes a work within and of itself. 

In order that the reader may more 
readily understand what we wish to say 
in explaining and defining these operations 
in the making of man we will here give an 
illustration from actual life. We will 
take for illustration the making of an 
automobile, the workman first makes the 
body of that machine and when it is done 
it is complete of itself and may be called 
a wagon or carriage. He then makes a 
motor engine which is complete within and 
of itself, and is called an engine. He then 
puts the two together and connects them 
properly and they become an automobile. 

Now with this illustration in our minds 
let us return to the text given above and 
we find the first clause, describing the 
first act in the making of man says; "And 
the Lord formed man of the dust of the 
ground/ ' Now before we proceed to the 
second act; let us examine the substance 
used in the making of the body of man. 
The text tells us it was, "dust of the 
ground, " now we take some "dust of the 



AND MAX 57 

ground" to the chemist, he will analyze 
it and tell us it contains all the ingredients 
of matter that go to make up this material 
world of ours, and when God formed 
the body of man he simply took different 
proportions of matter and made bones and 
still different proportions and made flesh 
and so on through the whole process of 
making the body, and if we go on and 
examine all the different bodies and forms 
in this world we find they are all simply 
proportions of matter brought together in 
different proportions and it is one universal 
law of nature that all forms of matter 
when they are dissolved go into the same 
substance from which they were taken and 
it may be said of all "from dust thou art 
and to dust shalt thou return." 

We will now call attention to the investi- 
gation of the second act of the all wise 
creator in the making of man, which is 
described as follows: And (God) breathed 
into his nostrills the "breath of life." 
Now let us examin this, "breath of Life" 
and see how near we can come to finding 
out what it means and what it is. In 



58 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

the first place we wish to call the attention 
to these words as given in the Hebrew 
language from which our present bible was 
translated; the words breathe and breath 
in the Hebrew is Nesh-aw-mah, and Roo- 
akh, which are perfect synonyms, that is 
meaning the same thing as our words. 
Atmosphere and air, and their meaning in 
hebrew is wind and by inference powder, 
force, activity and figuratively a personal 
spirit. Now we know that if we wish to 
thoroughly understand any speaker or 
writer we must compare his utterances, 
one with another, so we think it very 
necessary to apply the same rule to fully 
understand the bible so we call attention 
to the w r ord of Jesus Christ to Nicodemus 
recorded by St. John 1 1 1-8. "The wind 
bloweth where it pleaseth and thou hearest 
the sound thereof, but canst not tell from 
whence it cometh and whither it goeth. 
So is everyone born of the spirit." Here 
we find Jesus Christ in endeavoring to 
explain the second or new birth to Nico- 
demus, uses the wind as a figure to re- 
present the second birth. The same as the 



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wind, i. e. breath is used to represent the 
first birth or creation of man. Under 
ordinary circumstances we would deem 
this sufficient but in this instance it is 
very necessary that we should thoroughly 
understand each other, for this description 
of the creation of man is the foundation 
upon which we base our answer to the 
question. "What is Man?" and also, The 
relation of man to the natural and spiritual 
world represented by science, and the bible, 
so we refer the reader to Acts 1 1 -2 "And 
suddenly there came a sound from heaven 
as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled 
all the house wherein they were sitting.' ' 
In the above quotation we have described 
unto us the most powerful manifestation of 
spiritual life that the world had ever 
witnessed up to this time and here a.gain 
we have the wind used as a figure of life 
into the body of the church, that long be- 
fore God had created out of natural things 
all our bible readers are aware of the fact that 
God laid the foundation of that body when 
he called Abraham out from among his 
people, and established his covenant w r ith 



60 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

him by the outward form of circumcision 
and when Moses had set up the Tabernacle 
in the wilderness, and instituted all the 
forms and ordinances of God's service with- 
in it. The body of the church was com- 
pleted and all the services of the tabernacle 
were outward, all its offerings were material, 
and all its services consisted in outward 
forms and ceremonies. "But when the day 
of Pentecost was fully come, God breathed 
into that natural body, the breath of life 
and it became a living spiritual church 
or Tabernacle/ ' Some might ask why so 
much figurative language? We answer 
simply because it is the only means by 
which we can understand spiritual things. 
Jesus had reference to this fact when he 
said to Nicodemus, "If I have told you 
earthly things and ye have not believed 
(i. e. understood) how shall ye believe 
(i. e. understand) if I should tell you 
heavenly things/' and we suppose the 
Apostle Paul had the same idea in his 
mind when he had that wonderful ex- 
perience wherein he says he was caught up 
to the third heaven. For he says s he 



AND MAN 61 

heard things unlawful, that is impossible, 
to be uttered he must have meant there 
was no law of language by which he could 
convey to our minds, any idea of what he 
heard, and in describing our present con- 
dition he says, "For now we see through 
a glass, darkly." having reference, no 
doubt to some one trying to behold him- 
self in a mirror when it was covered with 
dust, or trying to look through a window 
when all smoky. Having in his mind 
doubtless how our fleshly or bodily sur- 
roundings obscure our spiritual vision, and 
he says in another place, "For eye hath 
not seen or ear heard neither hath it 
entered into the heart of man to conceive 
what God hath in store for those that love 
him." And this is a fact we know in the 
natural world, that all our language is 
figurative, whenever we speak the name of 
any object or thing there immediatley 
comes into our mind a mental vision of that 
thing; we speak the word tree, and we 
immediately receive into our mind a 
vision of that- object; we say oak, elm or 
walnut and we instantly note in our mind, 



62 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

the different feature of those different 
trees, and so on through all things of which 
we have any knowledge. But speak of 
that of which we know nothing, and the 
words are meaningless to us. To one born 
blind and who has never been able to 
see, it is impossible to make him under- 
stand anything about what color is, and 
to those who have never been able to hear, 
we cannot communicate any knowledge 
of the sweet sounds of music, and since 
w^e cannot receive through our natural 
senses any knowledge of the spiritual 
world, it is impossible to instruct in spiritual 
things only through natural language, hence 
the necessity of figurative speech. And 
since God, and his son Jesus Christ, and 
all his inspired servants have used these 
natural figures to explain to us the spiritual 
things, we must necessarily conclude that 
there is a very great similarity between 
the natural and the spiritual. It may seem 
to our readers that we have wandered a 
long way from our text, and we may 
have, yet we thought it necessary in order 
to get as much light as possible on the 



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explanation of the meaning of "The breath 
of life," and with the array of facts we 
produced in the foregoing, we think we 
can truthfully say that this "Breath of 
life," is a personal individual being made 
in the image and likeness of God and pos- 
sessing to some extent all the attributes 
of God, among which are life and Immorta- 
lity. 

And this brings us to the consideration 
of the third Act., which in reality is not 
an act of its self, but rather the result of 
the other two acts, for it is described 
thus, "And man became a living soul.' 7 
Plainly speaking, the soul obtains its ex- 
istence by the uniting of the spirit with the 
body, and connecting them together as 
only divine power can connect thus making 
them one, and this one becomes "a living 
soul." 

Now we reason like this, that if the soul 
is the result of the uniting of the spirit 
and body, it depends entirely on that 
union for its existence. If this be true, 
then if the body and spirit were separated 
as in death, the soul would become extinct, 



64 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

that it would cease to live. Therefore the 
soul is not immortal, neither is it the 
spirit any more than it is the body. It 
is not proper to say man has a soul, but 
rather that man is a soul, for it takes 
both the body and spirit to become a living 
soul, therefore a man's body is just as much 
his soul as his spirit is. If we will get the 
above facts fixed in our minds when we 
read our bibles, a great many passages will 
be made plain to us that are otherwise 
very obscure. 

Many inferences in the bible infer that 
the soul that sins shall die, in these it 
evidently means the man. David in 
Psalms often prays for the deliverance of 
his soul from death or destruction which 
prayers would be vain and useless if the 
soul could not die, and Jesus say in Matt. 
X 28. 'Tear not them that destroy 
the body but afterwards have no power, 
but rather fear him which is able to destroy 
both soul and body in hell," i. e. the 
grave. Now if the soul could or would be 
destroyed, it is evident it is not immortal, 
and James V-20, "Let him know that he 



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which converteth the sinner from the error 
of his ways, shall save a soul from death 
and shall hide, a multitude of sins." Which 
would be meaningless if the soul could not 
die, and Heb. IV-12 where Paul tells us 
that the Word of God is able to divide 
asunder the soul and spirit, making a very 
definite destinction between the two. We 
wish to emphasize this destinction very 
particularly as we expect to refer to it 
quite frequently in our following investi- 
gation of man. Xow let us return to the 
creation of man summing up the facts we 
have written, and I think we can find a 
very fair answer to the question, "What 
is Man?" 

And here summing up the facts we have 
shown in the foregoing, we have this an- 
swer. That man is a dual, being made 
up of two parts, the body made of the dust 
of the ground and the spirit given by the 
breath or spiritual power of God and its 
substance is spirit. Not made up of parts 
and not disoluble, therefore, immortal in 
its existence, and made in the image and 
likeness of God. What is meant by the image 

(5) 



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and likeness of God? As God is a spirit 
and we are at least part carnal, and fur- 
ther, as God is infinite and we are finite, 
it is impossible for our minds to grasp 
or understand God, we can never hope 
to answer that question in full, but we 
will try to answer as far as we are able. 
In order that we may be able to find out 
as nearly as possible what the image and 
likeness of God is, we will first notice what 
it is not. And in order that we may be 
more readily understood, allow us here 
to give you an ancient Parable, we do not 
know its author, so we do not know who 
to give credit for it, but we do not at all 
claim it for our own. Leaving the honor 
to whom honor is due we give it to you as 
we remember it, which is as follows, 
"When God, said, let us make man, the 
fishes called a convention and sent a de- 
legation up to God, saying make man like 
us, but God said, no not like the fish. 
Then the birds sent up a petition, saying 
make him like us, but God said, no not 
like a bird. Then the animals said unto 
God, make him like us and again God 



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said, no not like an animal, and then the 
Angels said, make him like us, and still 
God said, no not like the angel. Then 
God said let us make man in "our own 
image and in our own likeness." 

Now we know that there is a theory in 
the world called the theory of Evolution 
which claims that all life started from a 
single germ, and that through years of 
Evolution, growth and development all 
forms of life were originated. First 
the lowest forms of Crustaceous life, then 
fishes, reptiles, birds, animals on up to the 
monkey, then man. This theory does not 
tell us in any positive way how that germ 
was produced but by some accident it 
got fastened to a rock, was surrounded by 
protoplasm and hatched out life. Hence 
the origin of all life. Now let us examine 
this theory of Evolution and see how much 
good common sense there is in it. 

In the first place we have already proven 
by both science and the bible that all 
species of life that have the power of re- 
production brings forth after its own kind. 
If this be true and there is no reasonable 



68 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

ground for doubt, then the theory of Evolu- 
tion in so far as the origin of species are 
concerned is an impossibility. 

And further we have already proven by 
the full support of science that the bible 
is true in all its statements. Therefore 
God did create man in his own image and 
likeness and in order to prove that the 
theory of Evolution is true, it would have 
to be proven that the fish, fowls and animls 
were all in the image and likeness of God, 
which is an idea so absurd, that no one of 
common human sense can for a moment 
believe it. So we see that this likeness 
does not consist in man being in the like- 
ness of any other creature, but does consist 
in his being in the likeness of God and as 
he is the only creature that is said to be 
in the image and likeness of God, he must 
be the direct creation of God and entirely 
different from all animal life. 

Now we are taught that the attributes 
of God are Unity, Eternity, Omniscience 
Immutability, Omnipotence, Incomprehensibi- 
lity, Wisdom, Goodness Justice, Holiness, 
Mercy and Truth, all these attributes God 



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gave to man in a finite, that is in a limited 
sense; and herein he is made in the image 
and likeness of God. All these qualities 
belong to a spirit and not to a carnal or 
natural body, therefore, it is in Man's 
spritual part and not in his natural part 
that man is in the image and likeness of 
God. As to how much of this image and 
likeness of God man retained and how much 
he lost, and how much he regained and how 
much he has at this present time and how 
much he may obtain in the future, we 
will endeavor to find out as we study his 
history from his origin through his growth 
to his final development. 

The next thing we wish to notice in our 
study of man, is his condition and his 
enviroments immediately after his creation. 

First his condition. The first thing we 
wish to say in regard to his condition is 
that he was perfect. We wish here to say 
to our readers that when we use this 
adjective perfect we use it in direct con- 
nection with the noun it describes. So 
when we say the man was perfect, we mean 
he was a perfect man and not a perfect 



70 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

angel or a perfect anything else, and the 
perfection of which we speak belonged to 
him as a man only. This word perfect as 
a part of speech is made often to mean by 
some people more than Webster or Wor- 
chester ever dreamed of, and here let me 
say once for all, for I wish my readers to 
understand that I fully believe that God 
deals with all mankind as a unit and as 
a character, and in no case as an individual. 
So what he says and does to Adam he does 
and says to all Adam's posterity and we use 
the word man as a generic term meaning 
the whole human race, so the whole human 
race was perfect in Adam having complete 
possession of all the physical, mental and 
spiritual powers and was fitted in every 
way for the position in which God placed 
him and that is, over the work of his 
hands; that means God made man his 
Superintendent and gave him authority 
over the work of his hands, see Gen. 
1-26-28. Job. VII-17, Psalm. VII 4-6. 
Heb. II-6 to 9. 

This made his relation to God three- 
fold. First that of a son, God is his Father 



AND MAN 71 

having created him and his relation and 
obligation to him as his son is, love and 
reverence, which is the duty of every son 
to his parents. 

Second, that of a subject, God being: 
his king and rightful ruler. 

Third, that of being a servant, God being 
master, and this service should be given, 
not as a task but as a higly exalted privi- 
lege. His environments we cannot enume- 
rate. Suffice it to say they were all that 
he could need to make him comfortable and 
happy. 

And this finishes up the description of 
the six day, i. e. ages of creation in so far 
as we have been able, in so brief a space 
to write them. What we have written is 
so very little, in comparison to what 
might be written, and what we know, is 
so very little in comparison to w T hat might 
be known that we almost feel as if we owe 
the reader an apology, and yet we feel 
that we have written enough to help the 
reader to lay such a foundation for his 
faith in God and the truth of the bible 
that all the arguments of infidelity will. 



72 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

never be able to affect it. When we look 
out over this grand old world, with all its 
harmonious arrangements, and its artistic 
beauty, and take into our consideration the 
grandeur and magnificence of the heavens, 
we feel that we cannot close this division 
of our subject, with more appropriate 
language than that of the Psalmist David, 
Given in the XIX- 1 to 4. "The heavens 
declare the glory of God and the firmament, 
sheweth his handy work; day unto day 
uttereth speech. 

And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 
There is no speach nor language, where 
their voice is not heard. Their line 
is gone out through all the earth and 
their words to the end of the world. In 
them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun." 

The next thing we wish to consider in 
our investigation of the relation of man to 
science and the bible is the obligations 
that God laid upon man as his subject 
and the instructions that he gave him as 
his superintendent. 

The first instructions God gave to man as 
his superintendent we find in Gen. 1-28, 



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and is as follows: "And God blessed them, 
and God said unto them, be fruitful, and 
multiply, and replenish the earth, and 
subdue it, and have dominion, over the 
fish of the sea and over the fowl of the 
air, and over every living thing that moveth 
upon the earth." 

The first four short sentences of the 
above verse contain all the instructions 
that God ever gave to man as his super- 
intendent. At a first glance they are so 
brief that they seem altogether insufficient 
and yet when we analyze them and study 
them thoroughly we find that they contain 
everything necessary to enable man to 
know his duty. 

Here and now we will take a retrospec- 
tive view of the line of thought that we 
expect to follow out, in our investigation 
of the relation of man to science and the 
bible and we wish to reverse our topic 
and put the bible first. The reader may 
ask why now and not in the start? We 
answer because in our discussion of the 
harmony of science and the bible, we wished 
to prove positively that all the statements 



74 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

made in the bible were upheld and proven 
to be true by the facts discovered by the 
investigations of science: this we think 
we did and thereby proved the perfect 
harmony of science and the bible. 

And now in our study of the relation of 
man to each we place the bible first, 
for upon man's relation to the bible rests 
his relation to science; the bible is God's 
revelation of himself to man, see, Jon. 
V-39. See Tim. 111-16. Man's relation 
to the bible or to God which is the same, 
is twofold. His moral relation which is 
threefold, (as we have already spoken) 
that of a son, that of subject, and that 
of a servant and all three of these may be 
expressed in the one word, love, and the 
second from the position in which God has 
placed him as superintendent or ruler over 
the work of his hand and all this relation 
or duty may be expressed in the one word, 
Obedience. Here we wish to notice the 
destinction between love and obedience 
for neither one under any circumstances 
can take the position or perform the duties 
of the other and while this is true, we do 



AND MAN 75 

not think that love can exist, at least in 
a living sense without obedience, yet obed- 
ience may exist and we believe often does 
from entirely selfish motive, without the 
presence of a particle of love. And in this 
they are very like faith and works and 
mean about if not altogether the same thing 
at least, we know that faith and love are 
so nearly the same, that one is never 
present without the other. In this com- 
parison we mean of course saving faith, 
for one might believe the whole bible and 
not love God a bit but this last is only 
belief and not real faith, for the word faith 
as generally used in the bible includes 
acceptance and trust as well as belief. 
I think that the Apostle Paul has reference 
to the distinction between love and obed- 
ience in 1st Cor. XIII 1-2-3 where he says 

1. ''Though I speak with the tongues 
of men and of angels and have not charity f 
i. e. love., I am become as sounding brass 
or a tinkling cymbal. 

2. And though I have the gift of pro- 
phecy and understand all mysteries and all 
knowledge and though I have all faith, 



76 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

(in Greek, confidence) so that I could re- 
move mountains and have not charity 
I am nothing. 

3. And though I bestow all my goods 
to feed the poor and though I give my 
body to be burned and have not charity 
it profiteth me nothing/' 

The Apostle Paul makes it very plain 
here that a man might obey, all that 
obedience required and not have love and 
it would profit him nothing. Having shown 
in the above our meaning in many things 
wherin we might have been misunderstood, 
we turn again to the instructions that 
God gave to man as the superintendent 
over his works. 

The first instruction was to multiply 
and replenish the earth and the second 
to subdue it. 

These instructions imply both a command 
and prophesy. For while God told man 
to do these things he knew they would 
be done. Herein is revealed God's eter- 
nal purpose as to the destiny of man that 
he shall people the earth with his posterity 
and subdue the world. 



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In the face of the above facts some 
may say, then man is a mere machine and 
cannot do anything of his own choice but 
that this is a wrong idea, as we can easily 
prove from many results of the present 
day. We will suppose that some inland 
town wants a railroad built to the coast, 
they contract with some very wealthy 
company to build that road, the agree- 
ments between that town and the com- 
pany are all made, the contract drawn 
up and signed, then all the inhabitants 
of that tow 7 n confidently say, we are 
going to have a railroad and the company 
says it shall be built and why this cer- 
tainty, because both the town and the 
company know the company has an abund- 
ance of money, (which is power) to build, 
and although the company itself does not 
expect to do the least bit of the work, 
they say the road shall be built so they call 
for men and teams agreeing to pay good 
wages. When men and teams come flock- 
ing in and the railroad is built, now the 
point w T e wish to notice is this, though the 
road has been built according to contract 



78 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

not a single man has been forced to work 
only in accordance with his will and per- 
haps not one has been kept from working 
that willed to do so, and another fact we 
wish to notice is none but those that 
worked received any pay. Now if man can 
with such certainty say he will do things, 
how much more can God, who is om- 
nipotent in power and perfect in wisdom. 
Now let us take a case to represent the 
moral side of this question, we will take 
for example the history of Cain and Abel, 
the two first children born into the world 
found in Gen. IV, here we find it recorded 
that Cain and Abel each brought an 
offering unto the Lord and the Lord had 
respect unto Abel and his offering but 
unto Cain and unto his offering he had 
not respect and Cain was wroth and his 
countenance fell. And the Lord said unto 
Cain, "Why art thou wroth and why is 
thy countenance fallen? If thou doest 
well shalt not thou be accepted and if 
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, 
and unto thee shall be his desire and thou 
shalt bear rule over him." 



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Now we suppose that no one will doubt 
in the least, but that Cain and Abel 
each one used the perfect freedom of their 
own wills in selecting their offerings, or in 
the manner in which they were made, and 
if any one could doubt, that doubt should 
be removed when we consider the language 
of the Lord when he said unto Cain, 
"Sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall 
be his desire and thou shalt bear rule over 
him." Herein not only declaring that man 
has the freedom of his will, but that he 
has power to exercise his will over all 
manner of sin. Having as we think fully 
shown in the above that although God is 
carrying out his purpose in the destiny 
of man, he does it without in the least 
interfering with man's free exercise of his 
own will. We will now turn again to the 
instructions that God gave to man and see 
how successfully he is carrying them out . 
First he was to be fruitful and multiply 
and replenish the earth and here we wish 
to notice this one fact and that is that 
God created in man the inherent qualities 
to carry out explicitly all the instructions 



SO SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

given to him. Before we proceed further 
in our study of man's progress, this peopling 
of the earth by man may be compared to 
a man starting to ascend a very high 
mountain* He starts up the foothills and 
goes upward to the top of one when he 
finds there is quite a hollow in front of 
him, so he must decend to the bottom, 
though it may be downward quite a way 
before he can ascend again, and he may 
find several such hollows and hills before 
he reaches the final assent to the top, yet 
each hill being higher than the other, the 
trend of his travels is upward until he 
reaches the top; now the main thing we 
wish to notice is this, that it is just as 
necessary for him to descend as it is for 
him to ascend for it all lays between him 
and the top of the mountain, which it is 
his object to reach. Now we have used 
this comparison to impress upon the mind 
of the reader that it is just as necessary 
for man to have reverses as to have suc- 
cess, for in his condition they both lay 
between him and the object to be obtained. 



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We have used this comparison because 
we wish to use its illustrative teaching 
quite frequently, as we go on w T ith our 
examination of the history of man. Now 
w T ith this comparison before us we will 
turn again to the history of man and see 
with what success and how far he has 
carried out the instructions of his Lord 
and master. First w r e wish to notice the 
history of Cain and x\bel, the first two of 
Adam's children and we are told that 
Cain became wroth at Abel and slew him 
w T hich is equivalent to one half of Adam's 
generation, murdering the other half, surely 
a very bad state of affairs and one that 
will forever disprove the assertions that the 
world is growing more wicked for there 
has never been a time since then that one 
half of Adam's posterity murdered the 
other half, yet notwithstanding this de- 
struction we are told that through Cain 
and the other sons and daughters that 
were born unto Adam, man multiplied until 
sixteen hundred years, (in round numbers) 
after that there was a great company of 
Adam's decendants living on the earth, 

(6) 



82 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

When man became so wicked that God 
was compelled to send on them a flood 
destroying them all but Noah and his 
family, just eight persons, we say God was 
compelled to send the flood, we mean that 
it was the only way that God could carry 
out his divine plan for if God had left 
them alone they had become so desperately 
wicked, that through the years to come 
they would have slaughtered each other 
and their corruption would have brought 
them so much disease and debility that 
there would have been far more suffering 
and death than the flood caused, and the 
human race would have become extinct, 
so God's judgment in the end became a 
blessing as this punishment was given 
through love and tender mercy for man's 
restoration. Man started again to carry 
out God's instructions w r ith a righteous, 
strong and healthy family, and from that 
time on up to the present, notwithstanding 
there has been floods and famines, pes- 
tilence and wars, and the ravages of diseases 
according to the best information we can 
obtain, man has been multiplying and re- 



AND MAN S3 

plenishing the earth until, now there are 
millions and multiplied millions of the 
human race that are so different in color, 
character and manners that without in- 
vestigation we might conclude they sprang 
from different sources, but when we con- 
sider the great influence that climatic 
changes, occupation and mode of living 
have upon man we very readily see how 
these differences of color, character and 
manners, may be brought about and all 
man kind still be the descendants of Adam 
and Noah. How long it will take man to 
finish this part of his instructions and com- 
plete the replenishing of the earth we 
cannot tell for we know that there are 
millions of miles of territory even in North 
and South America, not counting other 
countries and the isles of the sea, that are 
capable of maintaining and supporting mil- 
lions and multiplied millions of people over 
and above those on the earth at this time 
yet when we consider that it has been 
only a little over four thousand years 
since the flood, when there were only 
eight persons on the earth and see how 



84 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

rapidly they are increasing each year, we 
may readily conclude that it will not be 
very long until the first part of man's 
instruction has been carried out and the 
earth be fully replenished. As we expect 
to refer to the foregoing facts further on 
we will now return and see how far man 
has carried out the remainder of his in- 
structions which was to "Subdue the 
Earth/ ' We have in the foregoing some- 
times spoken of these as first and second, 
yet in the carrying of them out they are 
all one for man could not multiply and re- 
plenish the earth without subduing it, 
neither could he subdue it without mul- 
tiplying and replenishing it, as we shall 
plainly see as we carry on our investiga- 
tion. 

We will first analyze and define the word 
subdue. It means first to conquer, second 
to control, third to bring into service and 
all three may be embraced in the one 
word use. 

Next let us define what the word earth 
means. I do not think my readers will 
disagree with me when I say it means 



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this whole world, of earth, sea, and air, 
if this be true which we think will be 
made plain as we go on, then when God 
said to man, subdue the earth he meant 
that man should conquor, control and 
bring into his service all the forces of 
nature that go to make up this Natural 
world in which we live, and in order to 
do this, man must understand all the 
laws that govern matter which would make 
him a perfect scientist and herein we see 
man's relation to science must be very 
close. 

We do not mean that any one man 
should understand all the laws that go to 
make a complete scientist but we speak 
of man in the aggregate and we mean that 
all men as a unit must understand all the 
laws that govern matter and be perfect in 
science to follow out God's instructions and 
subdue the earth. 

We will now turn to the history of man 
and see how far he has carried out these 
instructions. 

When man came forth from the hands 
of his creator he was perfect and good, 



86 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

having all the inherent qualities necessary 
to enable him to carry out all God's divine 
purposes and yet these qualities were 
simply intuitive and must be developed 
and cultivated to make them useful, so 
man must pass through years of trial and 
experience to gain the ultimate end of 
subduing the earth and about the first 
science that man began to use was the 
science of agriculture. This was necessary. 
In order to raise grain to make his bread 
he soon learned that he must break up and 
cultivate the soil in order to make his 
grain produce properly, so he makes his 
wooden plow, brakes his oxen to work, 
brings both into his service and along with 
these he discovers other laws of nature, 
among which is the law of momentum, 
which means that when any object is 
started in any direction it continues in that 
direction until it meets a force sufficient 
to stop and the greater speed it is given 
the more power it will have, the farther 
it will go, so in accordance with this law 
man makes his sling and his bow and arrow 
which he uses against the wild beasts for 



AND MAN 87 

his protection and his meat food. Pretty 
soon he discovers through the science of 
chemistry that with sufficient heat he can 
extract the metals from the ore and obtain 
his gold, silver, copper and iron. He 
brings them all into his service. With his 
gold, silver and copper, he makes money 
his medium of exchange, with his iron he 
makes machinery, implements of agricul- 
ture and instruments of war. Still he goes 
on advancing with his discoveries of steam, 
electricity and the etherial waves, bringing 
into his service the water, the air, electri- 
city, and ether, until man gets on his 
railroad and moves with the swiftness of 
the wind. He takes his automobile and 
travels faster and farther than any horse. 
He gets into his aeroplane and vies with 
the eagle as he floats through the air. 
He sits down at a little machine in Chicago 
and talks to his friends over in New York 
City and if need be clear around the world, 
without the intervention of even a little 
wire. Like man multiplying and replenish- 
ing we cannot tell how far in the future it 
will be before man will have subdued it, 



88 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

but when we look back over the past 
history of man, then at the present and see 
with what rapidity he is advancing we 
must conclude it will not be very long, 
the writer remembers very distinctly that 
when he was a boy and the first scythe 
and cradle was used to cut down the wheat 
and oat fields that men thought it a great 
invention, and some went so far as to say 
they did not think any one could improve 
it. But when we look at the machinery 
used for that purpose to day, I think the 
reader will readily agree with me that they 
have improved it quite a little and all 
other machinery has been improved in 
about the same proportion. When we look 
at the rapidity of the inventions of today 
we are made to wonder or may be to not 
wonder at what may come next, and there 
is brought to our minds the words of Jesus 
Christ wherein he says, "when ye see all 
these things come to pass know that it is 
nigh even at the door" — Jesus Christ 
had reference to the things of which he 
had spoken and we have reference to the 
things we have written but we think both 



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have reference to the same coming events 
as we hope to be able to make plain fur- 
ther on. 

Up to this time we have dealt almost 
altogether with man's relation to science. 

And now we will turn our attention to 
his relation to the bible which includes 
his relation to God his creator, for the 
bible is God's revelation to man. It is a 
very truthful saying that a workman is 
known by his work and this is so univers- 
ally true that Jesus said, "By their works 
shall ye know them," and looking out 
over this natural world with all its varied 
forms of grandeur, harmony and artistic 
beauty and realizing it is all the work of 
God we are filled with awe, wonder and 
adoration, for such a being is beyond all 
the powers of our comprehension. And yet 
God, does not consider this enough because 
there is a spiritual world as well as a 
natural, and man being created a spiritual 
as well as a natural being, he is connected 
as much and no doubt far more with the 
spiritual world, than he is with the natural. 
So God gives man a book of revelation, 



90 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

the holy Bible, where in he reveals to man 
all that it is possible for him to learn and 
know, both of God and the spiritual world. 

And herein w r e see man's very close 
relations to the bible. We have heard some 
people give as an excuse for their not 
believing and obeying the bible, that there 
was so much in it that they could not 
understand. They say how can we believe 
what we cannot understand and yet we do 
believe and even know many things that 
we cannot understand, we know that on 
the same plant there are often flowers of 
three or four different colors, yet there is 
no one be he ever so well versed in botany 
who can understand why this is so. Yet 
he knows it is so. We know that it is 
our minds, that make our bodies do our 
bidding, yet there is no one that understands 
the connection between mind and muscles. 

And we might go on and fill a whole 
page with such examples. If there is so 
much in the natural world that we can- 
not understand how T much more in the 
spiritual, and further we know that the 
provision of God's grace is far beyond all 



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our necessities. There is far more good 
water in the world than we can all drink 
yet we will surely not die of thirst because 
we cannot drink it all, and there is more 
good food than we can eat, yet must we 
starve, because we cannot eat it all? So 
in the bible there are far more truths 
than we can understand yet must I starve 
my soul to death through doubt and dis- 
belief because I cannot use it all? No! 
Oh no! Let us drink enough to satisfy 
our thirst and eat enough to satisfy our 
hunger and believe enough of the bible 
to answer our every requirement. But let 
us search the Scriptures to know all we 
can, for wilful ignorance is sin. Now we 
will try to search the bible with all the 
ability we can and find out all we can 
about the relation of man to the bible, 
and in order to do this we will turn again 
to the beginning of the history of man. 
The first thought that comes to us, is, 
that God saw that in order to fit man to 
rule over the work of his hands, it was 
necessary to instruct, educate and devel- 
ope him, to fit him for his position in 



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life, so he places him under law that he 
may learn obedience, for there is none fit 
to command until they first learn to obey, 
neither is there anyone fit to govern and 
control others, until they first learn to 
govern and control themselves. So God 
being a wise teacher places man in the 
school of obedience and experience and like 
a wise teacher beginning with a primary 
class, he first gives him a short lesson, 
just one law, that being the law of the 
Sabbath. This law he was to keep by 
ceasing from his own labor and by medita- 
tion and consecration give himself to the 
service of God. Now let us search for a 
little while and find out what the scrip- 
rures say in regard to the law of the 
sabbath. We will first find out if we can, 
what day of the week Adam and all his 
generations kept up to the giving of the 
law by Moses from Mount Sinai. 

First, let us take into consideration the 
fact we have already proven. That among 
all the creatures God has made, man is 
the only time keeper. Before man was 
created there was no record of time, there- 



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fore, it was eternity. Further let us notice 
that it was in the evening of the sixth 
age or period of this eternity, that man was 
created, and the next day being the Sab- 
bath it was the first day of twenty-four 
hours, therefore, the first day of time, for 
Adam could not keep time before he 
lived, therefore, Adam kept the first day 
that he lived and as he must necessarily 
begin numbering his days, weeks, and years 
from the first day he lived, he must neces- 
sarily have kept the first day of the week. 
We will search the bible and see if it is 
in harmony with this theory. We will 
turn to Mat. VI-33, here JesUs teaches 
that man's first duty is to God, saying; 
"but seek ye first the kingdom of God and 
his righteousness.' ' Here we have a direct 
command to first seek God, making it 
man's first duty to seek God, so man 
should keep the first day of the week for 
his Sabbath. Some may ask, did not God 
command the Jews to keep the seventh 
day of the week, for their sabbath, we 
answer he surely did, but this was a typical 
sabbath and different from the first and 



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it was given as a sign between God and 
the Jews, see Exo. XXXM3-14. 

This Sabbath was a figurative or typical 
Sabbath, and represented that in the end 
of the works of the law, was to come the 
Sabbath or rest of faith, therefore, it was 
a ceremonial Sabbath and was done away 
with the ceremonial law which was ful- 
filled in Christ see, Gal. 111-23, 24, 25. 
Here Paul likens the law to a schoolmaster or 
teacher, he meant of course the ceremonial 
law which in all its teachings prefigured the 
coming of Christ. He could not have 
meant the moral law of righteousness, for 
Jesus carries that all over and includes it 
in the law of faith and makes it binding 
on the whole world forever, see, Mat. 
XIII-37-38-39-40. Some may say, did the 
Jews keep the first day of the week as a 
Sabbath? In some instances they did, 
whether they did all the time, we are not 
able to say, but we can say the Christians 
did, as is frequently shown in the new 
Testament. And Paul in writing to the 
Hebrews IV-9-10. Says "There remaineth 
a rest (Sabbath) therefore, to the people 



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of God" meaning doubtless that after the 
seventh day or ceremonial Sabbath had 
passed away with the necessity that brought 
it, the churches, with a few exceptions, 
have kept the first day of the week as 
their Sabbath from the time Christ as- 
cended into heaven until now. That first 
law that God gave to man is binding upon 
all mankind to day, just the same as 
when he gave it to Adam and it might 
be asked what is our duty toward the 
Sabbath day. In this age of the world, 
it is the same as at the start, that is, 
that we, by meditation and consecration, 
should render our service to God, and Jesus 
says both by precept and example. It is 
right to heal the sick and do good on the 
Sabbath day. But to use it for our own 
profit or pleasure is to violate God's holy 
law and man will have to render an ac- 
count to God for how he uses the Sabbath 
day. 

We might bring much more proof from 
the bible to prove the facts we have given 
in the foregoing, but do not think it neces- 
sary as the reader can search them out 



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for himself if he is not satisfied with the 
references we have given. So we will 
leave our study of the law of the Sabbath 
and take up the study of the next law 
God gave to man. 

We find it recorded in Gen. 11-16-17 and 
is as follows: "But of the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not 
eat for in the day thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die." Now we notice in the 
above quotation two very distinct facts; 
the first is that God gives to man a plain 
and definite law, and the second is that 
God makes plain to man what the result 
will be if man disobeys that law. We 
are well aware of the fact that a greater 
number of bible critics claim that the story 
written of man in the Garden of Eden 
is an allegory, and we are willing to admit 
that part of it is figurative but the im- 
portant facts connected with it are very 
real. The tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil is doubtless figurative, and its 
fruit is figurative. Its effect as to making 
one wise is also figurative. We might 
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we take up the real facts. First the tree, — 
we notice that a tree is often used as a 
figure of a real nation or person and its 
fruit is used as a figure of the work and 
character of that individual or nation. 

Jesus says "by their fruits ye shall know 
them and herein is my Father Glorified 
that ye bear much fruit' ' as to the figure 
of the knowledge of good and evil. We 
are free to admit that we do not know 
what it means. It is one of the mysteries 
of the bible that we are not able to solve 
so we will leave our readers to study it for 
themselves and form their own opinions. 
We might add that we have our opinion, 
but as we are not writing our opinions, 
our aim being to give our readers the real 
facts, and we believe that they will agree 
with us when we say that one proven fact 
is worth a whole book of opinions. Now 
to the real facts connected with this 
history of man in the garden of Eden. 
First there was a real man and woman, 
and second there was the real God there, 
and he gave to man a real law and told 
him what would be the real result if he 

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broke that law and further on in that 
story there was a real tempter. This 
tempter is introduced into that story in 
the form of a serpent, which in other 
places in the bible is called the Old serpent, 
the devil and satan, of which we wish to 
speak further on, but here we will say 
that the bible describes him as a personal 
being who is the enemy, or adversary, 
of both God and man. We must keep 
this fact in our mind as w r e go on in the 
study of this story, for this is the great 
principle that is involved. In Gen. Ill 
1-6, we have an introductory description 
given to us of this enemy of God and man 
in the following language. "Now the serpent 
was more subtile than any beast of the 
field which the Lord God had made and 
he said unto the woman, Yea hath God 
said ye shall not eat of every tree of the 
Garden. And the woman said unto the 
serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the 
trees of the garden but of the fruit which 
is in the midst of the garden God hath 
said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall 
ye touch it, lest ye die." 



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"And the serpent said unto the woman, 
ye shall not surely die. For God doth 
know that in the day ye eat thereof then 
your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be 
as God." R. V., knowing good and evil, 
and when the woman saw that the tree 
was good for food and that it was pleasant 
to the eyes and a tree to be desired to 
make one wise she took of the fruit thereof 
and did eat and gave also to her husband 
with her and he did eat. 

This is the short history of the first 
temptation that satan, the adversary of 
man, presented to him and through which 
he was able to bring about man's fall and 
thereby bring upon man so much suffering, 
sorrow and death. 

Now let us study those facts connected 
with this story and I think we may be 
much benefited thereby. First the tempta- 
tion: — we wish to point out the fact that 
it was threefold. We will first consider 
the woman, separate from man for there 
was considerable difference in the trial 
and temptation of the two though the 



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result was just the same in both cases, as 
we hope to show further on. 

We are told the first appeal of the 
tempter was made to the appetite of the 
flesh, we are told that when the woman saw 
that the tree w r as good for food, she was 
tempted through the appetite or craving 
of hunger. There was no sin in the desire 
for the food, the woman's sin consisted in 
her taking unlawful means to satisfy that 
desire and thereby breaking God's holy 
law. And are not all mankind still often 
tempted to take and use things to satisfy 
that desire that are against the laws of 
God and man? Either in the things they 
take or in the means they use to obtain 
them, it matters not which, for both are 
sin. 

The next avenue of that temptation was 
through her e} T es. It was pleasant to the 
eyes, so she coveted it and committed 
the sin of covetousness. 

It was no harm for her to look at the 
tree and its fruits and admire its beauty 
or even to desire it, but her sin consisted 
in taking it unlawfully and do not all 



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mankind sin in the same manner. To 
illustrate more fully if my neighbor has a 
beautiful horse it is no sin of mine to admire 
its beauty or wish to own it myself, but 
if I determine in my heart to get that 
horse unlawfully or even to take the ad- 
vantage of my neighbor to obtain it then 
I am commiting the sin of covetousness. 

The next avenue of the temptation, was 
love of fame and pride of life, ambition, 
and so on for we are told that she saw the 
tree was one to be desired to make one 
wise, one would think that the desire to 
be wise would be commendable in any one 
and under almost any circumstances, but 
we must remember that there are two kinds 
of wisdom. We do not want our children 
educated in the school of crime and law- 
breaking. 

Next let us notice some of the differences 
between the transgression of Eve and Adam. 

Turning to the Epistle of Paul to 
Timothy, 1st Tim. 11-14 we find this 
written, "And Adam was not deceived, but 
the woman being deceived was in the 
transgression.'* It seems plain from this 



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quotation that Eve or the woman did not 
intend to sin but being beguiled, i. e. 
deceived, she did it ignorantly, while Adam 
did it wilfully and knowingly. The woman 
in the instance of her trial, lost sight of 
the crime of bieaking God's holy law, but 
the man did not. One would think under 
these conditions that the man was the 
greater sinner but there are other facts 
to be taken into consideration. One, the 
law of marriage which was given before 
the eating of the forbidden fruit, which 
declares that a man must forsake father 
and mother and cleave unto his wife and 
further while Adam had all the incentives 
that Eve had to sin, he had the love he 
had for his wife, for he must have known 
if he had not eaten the fruit she gave him, 
she would have been driven away and 
been lost to him forever, and further, we 
turn to Eph. V-25 and read "husbands 
love your wives even as Christ also loved 
the church and gave himself for it." 

Now if Christ gave himself for the church 
why not Adam give himself for Eve. 



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These aie facts we may very well study. 
The next we wish to notice is the result 
of Adam and Eve's transgression and that 
result is just the same, notwithstanding 
Eve's ignorance or Adam's excuses and here 
we wish to mention one more thing in 
connection with Adam's transgression. The 
serpent was not allowed to use one particle 
of force to control the wills of Adam and 
Eve, what they did was of their own free 
will. Now the result, God said to the man. 
'Tn the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die." Before we fully take up the 
study of the result of the sin of Adam and 
Eve, we wish first to notice the extent of 
that sin, and the depth of iniquity into 
which they had fallen. Their obligation 
to God, as we have shown on a former 
page, were threefold. First, as children, 
they owed God love and filial affection; 
second, as subjects, they owed to God true 
allegiance as their king; third, they owed 
to God as their master, obedience and 
service. So their sin was threefold. First, 
they dishonored God as their Father. 
Second, they rebelled and turned traitors to 



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him; and third, they served the serpent, 
the devil and satan, and all this they did 
of their own free will. The Apostle makes 
this very plain in his Epistle to Rom. VI- 16 
wherein he says "Know ye not that to 
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, 
his servants ye are to whom ye obey, 
whether of sin unto death or of obedience 
unto righteousness/ ' and in the last verse of 
said Chapter he declares that the "Wages 
of sin are death' ' and they that will to 
serve the devil, are his servants and more 
than that, they become his children see, 
Jno. VII-44, here Jesus Says "ye are of 
your father, the devil and the lusts of your 
father" R. V. ye are willing to do. So we 
see what a wonderful difference this sin 
made in the relationship of man. It 
severed all his relationship with God and 
transferred it all to the serpent, the devil 
and satan, and yet how little some people 
realize what sin does. 

"For in the day thou eatest thereof 
thou shall surely die" and did Adam die? 
we answer he did, soul and body and spirit 
and would have remained eternally dead, 



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if God in his goodness and mercy had not 
redeemed him from that death, but God 
foreknowing all things had provided a 
ransom for man in the person of his be- 
loved Son, whereby man is still left with 
the freedom of his will to choose to serve 
God or satan. As we expect to give much 
proof of these facts as we go on with the 
study of the relation of man to the bible, 
we will here study the time and nature of 
that death. As to the time of the death, 
Adam did die in the day he ate the for- 
bidden fruit, according to the definition 
we gave to the word day in the former 
pages of this book, and now let us look 
at the nature of that death. First it w r as 
natural. Adam's body died and returned 
to dust as it was. Second it was a legal 
death, his spirit became dead under the 
law, lest some should not understand what 
this means, we will try to illustrate it by 
our own natural laws, for instance when a 
man commits the crime of murder the 
penalty being imprisonment for life, he is 
tried, found guilty, his sentence is pro- 
nounced by the judge and he is sent to 



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prison for life. The very instant he enters 
that prison he becomes dead under the law 
(legally dead) he loses his citizenship 
and he loses his inheritance, his entire 
relationship, even the most sacred tie, that 
of matrimony for his wife is divorced, if 
he has one, and he even loses his name 
and becomes a mere number. So man by 
sin, becomes dead under the law to God, 
he loses all his spiritual relationship to 
God, but as we said above, God in his 
goodness and mercy provided a redeemer in 
the person of Jesus Christ, his beloved son, 
so he makes man a promise that the seed 
of the woman should bruise the serpents 
head and the serpent should bruise his 
(man's) heel and lest we forget to explain 
what this prom^e means, (for it is couch- 
ed in figurative language) we will here give 
a brief explanation of what it represents. 
In the first place we wish to notice that 
the head contains all the directing power 
of the body, while the heel is the lowest 
member or part of the body, and the word 
bruise means to destroy or put to naught. 
So we have this explanation, the seed of the 



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woman is to bruise all the power of the 
serpent while the serpent is to bruise his 
heel. Now we know that the body, i. e. 
the flesh, is the lowest part of man and 
may be plainly represented by the heel. 
So we have this great truth made plain 
that the seed of the woman is to destroy- 
all the power of satan or the serpent. 
While the serpent is to only bruise or 
destroy man's body, and even that will 
be brought to naught for man is to re- 
ceive a new body when he is born into 
Jesus Christ as the second Adam, 1st Cor. 
XV 45-46-47-48-49. And that the seed 
of the woman is to destroy the serpent's 
power. Paul makes plain in Heb. 11-14 
to 18. And this seed of the woman, how 
it covers her with Glory for it does away 
with all the blame she had incurred in 
causing man to eat the forbidden fruit for 
she brings to him a savior that saves him 
from all his sins and reinstates him in 
the full favor of God, and again brings 
him into full relationship to God and 
herself, also into her full relation to him 
as his helpmeet. So by the death of 



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Christ, man was placed back just where 
he was before the fall. We know that 
there is an idea in the world that Adam 
and Eve are responsible for much of our 
sorrow and suffering and they often lay 
their faults to what they are pleased to 
call inbred sin. The bible does not use 
any such terms. It is not within its sacred 
pages the advocates of this doctrine often 
quotes in support of it the language of 
David in Psalm LI-5. Behold I was 
shapen in iniquity and in Sin did my 
Mother conceive me (margin warm me) 
at a glance one might think this was 
pretty conclusive proof, but we must take 
into consideration the fact that this Psalm 
contains the prayer of David for for- 
giveness for what he had done and the 
sin he had committed when he had un- 
lawfully taken Uriah's wife and had him 
put in the forefront of the battle and slain. 
David repented and was confessing his sin 
unto God and the language we have quoted 
doubtless had reference to the sin or rather 
double sin that he and Bersheba had 
committed in that transaction and had no 



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reference whatever to what is called Adamic 
sin. To say the most we can about the 
meaning of the language of David in the 
above quotation it is somewhat obscure 
as to its reference and meaning, but there 
is plenty in the bible that is too plain to 
be misunderstood and we refer the reader 
to those passages that are plain, Rom. 
V-12 to 21 inclusive. The apostle speaks 
too plain to be misunderstood, in the 18 
and 19 verses as follows: 18th, "therefore 
by the offence of one judgement came upon 
all men even so by the righteousness of 
one the free gift come upon all men unto 
justification of life. 19th, For as by one 
man's disobedience many were made sinners, 
so by the obedience of one shall many be 
made righteous" and 1st Cor. XV-22 and 
Ezekel XVIII, read the whole chapter it 
does not need any comment, for any one 
can understand. We might bring many 
more scriptural proofs that Jesus Christ 
atoned by his blood shed for Adam's sins 
and there is no such thing as original or 
inbred sin. All this of course has reference 
to Adam's spiritual man and not to the 



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flesh or carnal man (his natural body) 
for the serpent has power to bruise, afflict 
and even destroy that, but when man 
subdues the earth as we have shown in 
the former pages, then we fully believe 
he will find an antidote for every disease 
and through these and the sanitary laws- 
that govern his physical man, he will free 
himself from pain and disease and live 
out his allotted time without suffering, and 
there will cease to be any little short 
graves in our cemeteries. That man in- 
herits disease and appetites and even to 
some extent character from his parents, 
no one can reasonably deny, but the sin 
of Adam has nothing to do with that kind 
of descent. Some might and even do claim 
that Christ died for all and that all are 
saved. We answer in so far as Adam's 
sin is concerned that is true, but Jesus* 
death only placed man where he was be- 
fore the fall, and now every man stands 
on his own responsibility. So if we sin, 
because we will to sin, we must will to 
return to God by complying with the 
conditions that God has made for redemp- 



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tion and salvation, which are repentance 
and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, of 
which we wish' to speak more fully further on. 
But here we wish to take up and study 
the serpent that tempted Eve and see if 
we can find out from whence he came, 
what he has done, what he is doing, what 
he will do, and what is to be his final 
destiny. 

We have already told in part what the 
serpent is, but we will here repeat in part 
and go on and give all the names by which 
he is called in the bible. In many places 
in the bible he is called satan, the devil 
and the old serpent and also Apollyon and 
all these names. 

Either, by direct application or reference 
means destroyer. He is also called the 
prince of this world and the prince of the 
of powers of the air. All these names re- 
present character. We shall only use a 
part of them here but may refer to them 
as we follow the history of man. 

As to what he was, it is believed by 
many bible students that he was once 
an angel of God, or perhaps more likely 



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one of the sons of God for though God has 
only one begotten son Jesus Christ, who 
the bible tells if us J was be-gotten of the 
Holy Ghost, which ^is God, has according 
to the bible spiritual sons that worship 
around his throne see, Job. XXXI 1 1-7 
also Ch. I-6-II 1. What real relationship 
these sons of God have to him w T e do not 
fully know but it [must be a very intimate 
one and satan also seems to have been per- 
mitted to be with them but his purpose 
was not to worship God but to accuse 
Job of being insincere in his service and 
what satan was permitted to do at that 
time with Job he very probably could do 
with all God's servants at that time for 
Job was a representative character, for 
though God is no respector of persons 
yet he is a respector of character. 

Before we proceed further, we wish to 
notice this one great prominent fact, and 
that is, that all the intelligent Creatures 
that God has created, have the perfect 
freedom of their own wills, which freedom 
is only limited by the freedom of other 
intelligent individuals. It would seem that 



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there are very many people that do not 
understand the law of freedom, therefore 
we wish to give an illustration. We will 
take foi instance the laws of our United 
States, which we boastfully claim and 
rightfully too, is the land of the free, but 
we sometimes forget, or through the blind- 
ness of prejudice do not see that our own 
freedom stops just where our fellow citizen's 
freedom begins. That means that the 
freedom of the will is governed by the 
eternal and unalterable law of justice and 
this we know that God's throne is founded 
on justice and so is the freedom of the 
will. God himself cannot destroy the free- 
dom of the will without destroying his own 
throne and yet each individual can forfeit 
the freedom of his own will by rebellion 
against God and his throne of justice. 
Thus removing from its foundation his 
own liberty, which can never be restored 
without the satisfying of justice which Jesus 
Christ did. Jon. 111-14 to 19 inclusive. 
Heb. IX-26-27-28. Thus man was restored 
to the freedom of his will and now we 
will turn to the history of satan and try 



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to answer the question as to who and what 
he was. We find in Jude 6 this language, 
and the angels which kept not their first 
estate but left their own habitation. He 
hath reserved in everlasting chains under 
darkness unto the judgment of the great 
day 2nd Pet. II-4. 

For if God spared not the angels that 
sinned, but cast them down to hell and 
delivered them into chains of darkness to 
be reserved unto judgment, now just a 
little comment upon the above two passages 
of the bible will make them very plain. 
Jude says that the angels which kept not 
their estate, the marginal reading and the 
R. V. says their own principality, now 
these angels must have had a principality 
01 they could not have left or lost it, and 
we know that a principality is a part of 
a king's dominion ovei which a prince 
appointed by the King reigns. 

Now we have this fact set before us 
that one of God's angels, sons, or princes 
rebells against God, that is, kept not his 
first estate, therefore is under condemna- 
tion before God and his government. 



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Now with the above facts fresh in our 
minds, let us turn to Rev. XI 1-3 here 
John the Revelator tells us. And there 
appeared another wonder (margin sign) in 
heaven and behold a great red dragon and 
in verse 4 he says his tail drew the third 
part of the stars of heaven and did cast 
them to the earth, and in verse 9 he tells 
us that the great red dragon was the old 
serpent called the devil and satan. Now 
this great red dragon and the prince of 
the angels that "kept not their first estate are 
one and the same and all the evidence that can 
be obtained, points so plainly to that fact, 
that there are none that can reasonably 
doubt it. 

When anyone is accused of crime we 
always try to find out if the accused had 
a reason, cause or an object for committing 
that crime; in short why should he have 
done it? So why did Satan rebel against 
God? 

We think we can fully answer that by 
saying what cause did Satan have for his 
envy, jealousy, and covetousness? We an- 
swer because when God created man, He 



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says he placed him over the work of his 
hands. Then if the angels be the work of 
God's hands he is to be placed over the 
angels when in his final development he 
is fitted for that position. This is very 
plainly stated in many places in the bible. 
See, Psa. VIII-6. Heb. II 8. We know 
that most theologians think these references 
refer to Jesus as the second Adam, so it 
does and to man also, 1st Cor. 1 1 1-21-22 
23. 1st Cor. VI-2-3. Rev.' 11-21. John 
XVII inc. 

All these passages seem to indicate very 
strongly that man is finally to be exalted 
above the angels, so we have said that no 
man, no not all men, can define or under 
stand the origin, growth, and final devel- 
opment of a human soul. So the question 
"What is man?" cannot for the present at 
least, be fully answered. 

By the foregoing reference from the 
bible we can have a good idea what caused 
Satan to rebel against God. It is thought 
by many bible students that the Prophet 
Isaiah has reference to Satan in his pro- 
phesy when he says, 0! Lucifer son of 



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the morning (Margin Day Star) and so 
on Isa. XIV-12 to 27 inclusive. The pro- 
phet here describes Satan as being jealous, 
ambitious, proud and covetous, and here 
we have a good answer to the question 
why he rebelled against God for he did 
not want man, a seemingly poor humble 
creature of this satellite world, to be ex- 
alted above him, so he rebelled against 
God, and as he could not destroy God, 
his next effort was to destroy man who 
was made in the image and likeness of 
God. He would doubtless have succeeded, 
had not Jesus Christ, God's beloved son, 
stepped in between man and Satan and 
taken the deadly blow Satan aimed at 
man. Thus securing to man again the 
freedom of his will, which he had lost 
by his transgression giving him again the 
free choice to serve God or Satan and God 
seeing that man could not keep the law 
of obedience and that Satan would con- 
tinue to tempt and destroy him through 
the weakness of the flesh gave to man a 
new law which is the law of faith. Rom. 
VIII-3-4-5. 



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Here we see very plainly, that the sal- 
vation of man is now, always has been, 
and always will be not by works, but 
by faith; the first man that was ever 
saved was Abel and he was saved by faith 
Heb. XI-4. Then some may ask, why 
did God give to man so many laws. We 
answer, to educate men that they through 
faith may accept Jesus Christ as their 
Savior. Paul says the law is our School- 
master to bring us to Christ. Gal. 111-24-25. 

Now let us carry out that figure and 
then we can better understand God's plan, 
in carrying out all his plans, for the sal- 
vation of man. 

Now we know if a schoolmaster is suc- 
cessful he must have buildings in which 
to carry on his school and he must have 
his furniture or furnishings for that build- 
ing and he must have charts and maps 
and other paraphernalia, to complete the 
requirements of his school. So God in 
order to make full preparations for his 
schoolmaster i. e. the law, when he would 
save Noah from the deluge tells him to 
build an ark, for the saving of himself 



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and family. Now after the flood a model 
of this ark is called the "Ark of the Cove- 
nant' ' and is to contain the law, the testi- 
mony and the emblems of life, which was 
Aaron's rod that budded and the pot of 
Manna, and was the building in which 
the schoolmaster i. e. the law was placed; 
see Heb. IX-4. After God had established 
his covenant with Noah and gave to him 
the figure of things to come he starts to 
erect the real building, so he calls Abraham 
out from among his people and establishes 
with him the farther covenant of Cir- 
cumcision, which is a figure of the work 
of the Holy Ghost which separates all 
sin from the heart of the believer. This 
outward circumcision of the flesh profits 
nothing only as a figure or sign of the 
work done in the heart by the Holy Ghost. 
Rom. 11-28-29 and IV-3-11. 

So Abraham having received this sign 
practiced it himself and on all his children 
after him and when Moses was born, his 
mother placed him in the Ark, thus bring- 
ing him into covenant relationship with 
God and thereby saved him from the de- 



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struction of the Hebrew babes, visited on 
them by Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Exodus, 
1-15-16 and II (read the history of Moses. 
It is very interesting and instructive) and 
shows us that the teachings of his mother 
and this covenant relationship she made 
with God by consecrating her babe to him, 
had such an influence over him that in 
after life he refused to be the servant of 
Pharaoh and choose to be the servant of 
God. Heb. XI-23-24^25-26. 

This history of Moses with its results 
seems to us to be a good reason why we 
should place our babies in covenant re- 
lationship with God by giving them the 
full benefit and protection of the church 
through its ordinances. 

Now let us turn again to Abraham and 
try to follow God's plan in gathering his 
material and carrying out his plan in 
building and forming the outward body 
of his church. We will get much infor- 
mation thereby. Perhaps it would be well 
to consider the fact here that there is 
another party to be considered and that 
is Satan, the serpent, the great red dragon, 



AND MAN" 121 

all these names mean the same person, 
the devil. And here we may very pro- 
fitably examine a little into his (satan's) 
career and see what he is doing for we 
have already shown he is the arch ad- 
versary of both God and man and being 
as he is declared to be, very subtile, we 
may be very sure he has not been idle. 
So we do not have to look long until we 
see his work. He attacks Cain, the first 
man born into the world, persuades him 
to be his servant and causes him to murder 
Abel, his (Cain's) brother who had chosen 
to be God's servant. Why did Cain do 
so? "Because his own works were evil 
and his brother's righteous" see 1st John 
111-12. 

And here began the fight by the ser- 
vants of Satan against the servants of 
God and his Chirst and it has been going 
on ever since. Satan worked so success- 
fully with the world before the flood that 
the world became so sinful and desperately 
wicked, that it was necessary for God to 
send the flood and destroy the servants 
of Satan, in order to preserve to himself 



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a people (Gen. VI-5. 2nd Pet. II-4-5.) 
and carry out his eternal purpose of 
educating and preparing man to accomplish 
the end for which he was created. But 
they were not all wicked, even before the 
flood, for we read of Enoch who was so 
holy and righteous that he walked with 
God and was not for God took him, tran- 
slated him to heaven, freeing him from the 
pains of death. Gen. V-22-23-24. Heb. 
XI-5. Doubtless there were hosts of others 
that served God in those days and are 
praising God in glory, whom the world 
did not notice. People often think that 
the world is growing worse and all is go- 
ing to the bad, even God's people some- 
times conclude that his cause is failing, 
Elijah in his day thought that God's 
servants had all been destroyed but God 
informs him differently. 1st Kings XIX 
10-18. 

The devil always tries to make it appear 
that he is far ahead of, and advertises 
his work far more than God. You cannot 
pick up a newspaper of today wherein 
Satan does not use more or less space 



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for advertising his work, there is scarcely 
a scandal that does not get into print 
and every murder, robbery, theft and all 
other crimes are hunted diligently and get 
into print and the devil almost always 
manages to get them printed as news, 
saving his advertising fees while there 
are thousands and thousands of good deeds 
done by the servants of God that are 
never mentioned. All over the civilized 
world there are multitudes getting con- 
verted and turning to God, and the pagan, 
infidel and heathen nations are pressing 
into the kingdom of Christ, and Satan 
manages to keep it as quiet as possible. 
You might ask why God permits this? 
We answer, because you never hear a 
wise general making any fuss if he knows 
he can and is, whipping his enemy. It is 
the one that is weak and is very much 
afraid, that is making the greatest show 
of his forces and what he is doing. 

And here again we meet the question, 
why is Satan allowed to do all these things? 
If God is all powerful and able to do all 
things why does he permit Satan to per- 



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ecute his servants, and we give the same, 
answer we tried to give before and we 
repeat it here, because we must keep it 
continually in our minds, and that is, be- 
cause of the eternal justice of the law 
that gives to all intelligent beings the 
freedom of their own wills until they have 
forfeited that right by endeavoring to 
deprive other intelligent persons of the 
freedom of their wills, this Satan in part 
at least has attempted, so he is under 
trial, and as every criminal has a right 
under the law of justice to bring all the 
evidence he can in support of his cause 
so Satan has a right to his freedom to act 
in that direction until he violates the law 
of freedom which he after awhile does, 
when he is condemmed and judged and 
sentenced to his final doom, as we will 
endeavor to make plain as we go on in 
studying the history of man. And further 
it is necessary for God's servants to be, 
tried and learn to resist and overcome 
temptation, before they are fit to serve 
God in the positions in which he wishes 
to place them, so trial is a part of their 



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education, it is necessary for their develop- 
ment. So it was necessary for Abraham 
to be tried by very hard trials for God 
intended to place him in, a very high 
position. He was to become the father of 
many nations and it was to be through 
him that all nations were to be blessed. 
This blessing was to come through the 
line of his decendants, in the person of 
the Lord Jesus Christ who was to become 
the great sacrifice for sin for all nations 
or the whole world. So God commanded 
Abraham to sacrifice his own son Isaac, 
in order that he might be not only the 
father of Christ through the flesh but the 
father of all God's spiritual children through 
faith, and Abraham did offer up his son 
in so far as the intent and purpose of his 
heart was concerned. He made a full and 
complete sacrifice, Gen. XXI 1-1 to 18 in- 
clusive. Heb. XI-17-18-19. And here in 
Abraham, God lays the great foundation 
stone for the great structure of his church 
both the natural (i. e. the body) and the 
spiritual, (i. e. the spirit) and further we 
are told that all God's servants must be 



126 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

individually tried to fit them each for the 
place God intends them to fill. 1st Pet. 
1-5-6-7. 

Having ascertained that God laid the 
foundation of his church in Abraham, we 
pass on over a period of some four hundred 
years and in the land of Egypt under the 
reign of King Pharoah. We find God's 
chosen people the descendants of faithful 
old Abraham, now called through his 
grandson Jacob, the children of Israel, 
afterward called also the Jews. These 
decendants of Abraham were in bondage, 
absolute, cruel, and defenseless slavery, 
under the above absolute despotic mon- 
arch, Pharoah. Here we find also the babe 
Moses of whom we have spoken and who 
was consecrated to God by his mother 
through the Cov e nants of Circumcision and 
the Ark. He was taken from the ark by 
the daughter of Pharoah and adopted as 
her child, thereby becoming heir to the 
Egyptian throne and in consequence of his 
being the adopted son of Pharoah's daugh- 
ter, he was educated in the highest schools, 
both civil and military that Egypt at that 



AND MAX 127 

time had, and it stood the highest then in 
civilization and education of any nation 
in the word, so we see how well God has 
had his servants fitted for the position he 
wants them to fill. As the history of the 
Jews is given so plainly by Stephen, in 
Acts VII, we will not repeat it here but 
ask our readers to get their bibles and read 
it there from the chapter we have given. 
In this history we also see the work of 
Satan in his opposition to God and his 
servants. He works through his servant 
the despotic king Pharoah to defeat God's 
plans. Some have said that Pharoah could 
not avoid doing what he did, for God said 
4 'for this purpose have I raised thee up 
that I might show forth my Glory in thee" 
and further that God hardened his heart 
to do what he did. But we must not 
forget the fact that God is dealing with 
Pharoah as a character, and in this charac- 
ter he is the servant of Satan and an 
enemy of God and his people, Pharoah 
had had his free choice between the service 
of God and the service of Satan, and he 
did not even have the excuse of not know- 



128 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

ing God, as he claimed to have, for the 
children of Israel had been serving God in 
his kingdom for four hundred years and he 
must have known about their service 
but Pharoah was proud in his heart and 
would not notice the God of his slaves. 
So he says to Moses, "Who is the Lord 
that I should obey his voice to let Israel 
go. I know not the Lord, neither will I 
let Israel go." Exodus V-2. 

Here we plainly see that Pharaoh had 
his choice with the freedom of his will, 
then we ask, did not God have a just 
right to treat him as the servant of Satan, 
God's Arch enemy? And did not God 
have the right to show forth his glory in 
him? And send all manner of plagues and 
punishment on him? LTntil he let his 
people Israel go, and God in order to 
educate his people and give them con- 
fidence in him visited his great plagues 
upon Pharaoh and his people and God 
led his servants out of Egypt, with a high 
hand delivering them from bondage, lead- 
ing them with the pillar of cloud by day 
and the pillar of fire by night, dividing the 



AND MAX 129 

waters of the Red sea, letting them pass 
over on dry land, and when Pharaoh at- 
tempted to follow and take them back to 
Egypt and slavery, God allowed the waters 
to flow back and drown Pharaoh and his 
army in the Red sea. God still goes on 
educating and preparing his servants, the 
children of Israel for they are the material 
of which he intends to construct his Great 
Church. So he leads them through the 
wilderness giving them miraculously, quails 
for meat, and manna for bread, making 
springs to gush out of the rock that they 
might have water to drink, helping them 
to fight their battles and giving them 
complete victory over their foes, until they 
were led to the foot of Mount Sinai when 
God called Moses up into the mountain 
in order that he might deliver unto him the 
Law and the Testimony that was to be 
the school master to lead his servants to 
Christ. So Moses went up into the Mount 
Sinai and God delivered unto him the ten 
Commandments written on two tablets of 
stone, which he had directed Moses to hew 
out of the rock, instructing him how 

(9) 



130 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

to build the Tabernacle showing him the 
pattern thereof, therein the mount, with 
all its furnishings, and the laws that was 
to govern all its services. Among them 
being types, and figures, emblems and signs* 
all pointing to one definite object and that 
was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great 
plan of salvation that he came to establish 
and carry out. And when all had been 
finished, God commanded Moses to set up 
the Tabernacle, and it was done. See 
Exodus XL. 

And Moses and Aaron carried out all 
God's instructions, and instituted all the 
forms, ceremonies, and services, of the 
Tabernacle, and when this was done, the 
body of the church was fully formed and 
complete, and when the day of Pentecost 
was fully come, God breathed upon that 
church, the Holy Spirit of life, and it 
became a living church and there was 
added unto it that same day, three thou- 
sand souls. So Jesus Christ took twelve 
representatives of the body of the church 
under the law, representing the twelve 
(which was all) the tribes of Israel, and 



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added to them as he saw fit and gave us his 
great plan of the salvation of the world, from 
the time of his coming until he shall come 
again. We think it unnecessary to follow 
the history of the Jews or the church under 
the law, which is the same, for all the 
Jewish nation belonged to the church. 
So we will simply add, in conclusion that 
there was a constant struggle or fight 
going on between the servants of God and 
the servants of Satan, and it often seemed 
as if there were more of the servants of 
Satan, even among the Jews than there 
were servants of God, but in this we are 
often deceived as Satan always manages 
to make his servants far more conspicuous 
than the servants of God. This much we 
know and which is true, that God always 
kept enough servants among whom to 
preserve his laws, statutes and testimony 
until the coming of Christ and we still 
have this schoolmaster pointing with the 
plain unerring finger of Prophesy to both 
time and events, that ushered in the com- 
ing of the worlds' redemer, which is still 
a very strong aid in turning the world 



132 SCIENXE, THE BIBLE 

to the Lord Jesus Christ. We will now 
turn our attention to the second great 
battle that Satan, the great red dragon, 
fought to destroy man and wherein he 
gathered all his forces and arrayed them 
against the son of God whom he gave to 
redeem the world and who in his official 
Character as the captain or prince of the 
servants of God, is called Michael. See 
Dan. X-13-21. XII-1. Jude 9. Rev. 
XII-7. 

Before taking up the study of this 
great second battle between God and Satan 
over the possession of man, we wish to 
first call the attention of the reader to the 
XII chapter of Rev. A more beautiful, 
and magnificient, portrayal of truth through 
imagery, has never been produced, than 
the divine revelator gives us in this chap- 
ter; he starts out by saying, and there 
appeared a great wonder (sign) in heaven, 
a woman clothed with the sun, and the 
moon was under her feet, and upon her 
head a crown of twelve stars. And she 
being with child travailing in birth and 
pained to be delivered. Before going futher, 



AND MAN 133 

we will interpret this language. The 
woman that John saw represents the Jewish 
nation and being clothed with the sun is 
a figure of the light of law bestowed upon 
her or which covered her. (David says 
thy law is a lamp unto my feet a light to 
my path way) this law points to the ex- 
istence and glory of God. And the moon 
under her feet represents the lesser light 
of nature pointing to God through his 
works, and as man is placed over all these 
works, so the moon was put under her feet, 
her crown of twelve stars was the twelve 
tribes of Isra.el that constituted the church 
under the law, which was the crown of the 
Jewish nation. 

And the child to be born was the child 
Jesus. The Jews had been watching, pray- 
ing and painfully waiting for many years 
for the coming of Christ, and this child 
was to rule the nations with a rod of 
Iron, Psa. 11-9. Rev. 11-27. XIX-15. 
John says further, and there appeared 
another wonder (sign) in heaven and behold 
a great red dragon. This represents satan, 
the devil, as John tells us in verse 9. 



134 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

And the dragon stood ready to devour 
the child as soon as it was borned. This 
the devil did for he sent his servant Herod 
to destroy all the babes in the neighborhood 
where Jesus was borned, Mat. 11-16. But 
he did not destroy Jesus for God was taking 
care of him. 

And the child (when he had accomplished 
that for which he came) was caught up to 
God and to his throne. Luke XXIV-51 
Mark XVI-19. Rev. 111-21. 

And the woman (The Jewish Nation) 
fled into the wilderness, that means the 
Jews were scattered among the Nation. 
As we are not writing about the prophesies 
contained in this chapter but merely its 
figures, we pass over the prophesies and 
leave them for future consideration. Tak- 
ing up the language of the Apostle in the 
7th verse he says, "And there was war in 
heaven, Michael and his angels fought 
against the dragon, and the dragon and his 
angels fought and prevailed not, neither 
was their place found any more in heaven/' 
And the great dragon was cast out, that 
old serpent called the devil and Satan which 



AND MAN 135 

decieveth the whole world. He was cast 
out into the earth and his angels were 
cast out with him. 

Then we are told there was great rejoic- 
ing in heaven. For the accuser of our 
brethren is cast down, which accused them 
day and night before God. And they 
overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, 
i. e. Christ, and by the word of their testi- 
mony. Therefore, rejoice ye heavens and 
ye that dwell in them. 

Woe to the inhabitants of the earth 
and of the sea, for the devil is come down 
unto you having great wrath, because he 
know r eth that he hath but a short time. 
This great war that the revelator speaks 
of in the above language was doubtless a 
spiritual war and actually did take place in 
heaven. A great many doubt this but the 
bible in many places intimates very plainly 
that Satan was before this war permitted to 
enter heaven and face to face with God 
accused God's servants; see Job 1-6. II-l 
to 6. 1st Kings XXII-19 to 22. Zech. 
I II-l. All these above texts point to the 
fact, that Satan was permitted to meet 



136 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

with the sons of God in his presence and 
if all that, why not in heaven? i\nd if 
Satan was allowed to enter heaven, why 
might he not be permitted to take his 
angels with him. We do not pretend to 
know how many and who his angels were, 
but we are told that when he rebelled 
against God and fell, that his tail drew 
the third part of the stars of heaven, so 
his angel followers must have been very 
numerous. Why Satan was permitted to 
enter Heaven we shall not attempt to 
answer here because that would simply 
bring us back to the explanation of the 
freedom of the will, which we have al- 
ready made as plain as we were able in a 
brief general work like this, so we will 
simply say he was permitted to do so until 
he had gone just as far as he could go in 
his effort to destroy the child Jesus, born 
of the woman as described above. This 
as we have shown he undertook to do at 
his birth, and when he failed there he 
did not give up but attacked Christ im- 
mediately after his Baptism by John the 
Baptizer; see Mat. 111-15 unto IV 16 in- 



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elusive, Luke IV-1 to 12. Heb. 11-18. 
IV-15-16. V-25. 

Jesus Christ was baptized to conse- 
crate or initiate him into his priestly 
office as mediator between God and man. 
See Mat. 111-15. 

Under the Law every priest that was 
consecrated into that holy office had to 
be washed with water before he was clothed 
with the priestly robes or permitted to 
offer sacrifices for the people, so Jesus in 
order to fulfill the law or fulfill all right- 
eousness as he told John the Baptist was 
baptized, i. e. washed and God sent the 
holy spirit upon him in the form of a dove, 
anointing him into the priestly office. 
As Moses was instructed to consecrate or 
ordain the priests under the law; see Exod. 
XXIX-4-5. XL-12-13. Lev. VIII-5-6-7-12. 

And Paul doubtless had reference to the 
same thing in Heb. X-21-22. What Satan 
had been doing during this interval of 
about thirty years since he had, through 
Herod destroyed so many innocent babies 
with the intent of destroying Jesus, the 
bible does not tell us, but he was doubt- 



138 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

less watching for Jesus for it is highly 
probable that the devil did not know who 
was Jesus during that time for John says, 
he did not know him until he saw the 
spirit descending and remaining upon him 
(Jno. 1-33.) and if John the baptist, whom 
God had sent to be his forerunner and 
announcer of his coming, did not know 
him, God must have also hid that know- 
ledge from Satan, but when Jesus was 
baptized and God declared him to be his 
son both by word and sign, then the devil 
knew and immediately he began his work 
to conquer him. And it is singularly 
noticeable that the devil uses the same 
tactics in his second attack on man that 
he did in the first one, for we must not 
forget that Jesus was very man as well as 
very God. So Satan makes his attack 
through Jesus' human nature, just as he 
did with the first Adam. Thus when Jesus 
had fasted forty days and his human 
appetite for food was very strong and his 
human body very weak from fasting, the 
devil tempts him through his appetite just 
as he did Eve, saying, If thou be the son 



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of God command these stones that they 
be made bread, but Jesus could not be 
deceived being God as well as man, which 
the devil very probably did not know. 
For great is the mystery of Godliness. 
God manifest in the flesh (1st Tim. 1 1 1-6.) 
So Jesus uses on Satan the great and 
powerful sword of the spirit. Ept. VI-17. 
Heb. IV-12. 2nd Cor. X-4-5. And Satan 
being defeated on that line of attack makes 
another. Here the devil knowing and feel- 
ing the power of the old sword concludes 
to try it himself. So from the pinnacle 
of the temple he says, "if thou be the son 
of God cast thyself down, for it is written, 
he shall give his angels charge concerning 
thee and in their hands they shall bear 
thee up lest at anytime thou dash thy 
foot against a stone" (Psa. XCI-11-12), 
but the devil like many of his servants just 
quoted enough of the bible to suit himself, 
so the devil is very careful not to quote 
the next verse wherein it says "thou shalt 
tread upon the lion and adder the young lion 
and the dragon" (or the devil and Satan.) 
So Jesus knowing this and being far better 



140 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

in the use of the sword easily parries off 
the thrust of Satan and gives him a blow 
that defeats him entirely on that line, say- 
ing it is written again 'Thou shalt not 
tempt the Lord thy God" (Dent. VI-16.) 
Being thus defeated in his second attack 
he tries the third, most powerful and last, 
when from an exceeding high mountain 
he showed him all the kingdoms of the 
world, saying "All these things will I give 
thee if thou wilt fall down and worship 
me." Then Jesus said unto him "Get 
thee behind me Satan, for it is written, 
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God 
and him only shall thou serve." This 
last thrust was so effectual that it defeated 
the devil entirely and sent him on the re- 
treat, but though badly beaten in the en- 
gagement he does not b}' any means give 
up the fight, as we shall soon see, but just 
here we wish to notice the similarity be- 
tween the temptations through which the 
devil caused man to fall through Adam. 
The first, and through the victory of Jesus 
Christ. The second Adam, by which man 
was redeemed and held in his first proba- 



AND MAN 141 

tionary state. The similarity between 
these two trials are as follows. First, they 
were both through the natural appetite of 
hunger, how strong this appetite was in 
Eve at the time of her temptation, we have 
no way of knowing but we know that in 
Jesus it must have been very strong for 
he had fasted forty days and must have 
been very hungry. The similarity consists 
in this, they w T ere attacked through the 
same craving of the flesh, hunger and in so 
far as the temptation is concerned, it does 
not matter whether it was presented 
through an apple or through a stone, to be 
turned into bread. The sin consisted in 
the fact that in order to satisfy that 
appetite, they must obey Satan and the 
second attack of Satan was through the 
love of pleasure, vanity, love of self. Eve 
saw it was pleasant to the eyes and Satan 
said to Jesus cast thyself down from the 
pinnacle of the temple, demonstrate thy 
power, simply an appeal to human vanity. 
Third through vain glory, love of fame; 
Eve saw it was a tree to be desired to 
make one wise and therebv became famous. 



142 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

And Satan said unto Jesus, "All these 
kingdoms of the world and their glory 
will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and 
worship me." It was no sin to desire the 
gratification of these human wants, but it 
was sin to obey Satan to get them and the 
first man, Adam obeyed Satan, sinned and 
thereby failed in his trial, but Jesus, the 
second Adam gained the complete victory 
over Satan and thereby proved himself 
able to help us in all our temptations. 
Paul says in Heb. IV- 15, for we have not 
a high priest which cannot be touched with 
feeling of our infirmities but was in all 
points tempted like as we are, yet without 
sin and chapter 11-18. For in that he 
himself hath suffered being tempted, he is 
able to succour them that are tempted. 
But as we said above, the Devil does not 
give up the fight. We have only to read 
the four gospels to learn how continually 
he followed up Jesus, persuading the people 
to believe he was a deceiver, a glutton, 
winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners 
and even accusing him of casting out devils 
by his own (the devil's) power, and further 



AND MAX 143 

being a blasphemer, until finally he per- 
suaded Judas to betray him, and the Jews 
and Romans to crucify him by nailing him 
to the cross. The devil and the Jews 
thought they were murdering Christ, and 
in so far as the intent and purpose of their 
hearts were concerned they were; they 
murdered Christ in their hearts and were 
fully guilty of being murders, but they did 
not kill Jesus, it was the sins of the whole 
world that he died for. He says, "No 
man taketh my life, I lay it down of my- 
self" (Jno. X-15-17-18.) The devil and his 
angels no doubt thought they were destroy- 
ing Jesus but they did not know Jesus, 
for that great mystery of Godliness, God 
manifest in the flesh, is hidden away in the 
bosom of the father and in the secret 
chambers of the wisdom of God. It is 
hidden away from the understanding of 
devils and men. So when that great cry 
burst forth from the sin burdened (of others 
not of his own) and broken heart of Jesus, 
that rent the vail of the temple from top 
to bottom and shook the earth till the 
rocks were rent and the graves were open- 



144 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

ed, and Jesus yielded up the Ghost Mat. 
XXVI I . We can imagine what a jubilee 
of rejoicing was held by the devil and all 
his angels over all his satanic dominions. 
They were no doubt, so taken up with 
their reveling that they were filled with 
surprise and consternation when on the 
third morning after they thought he was 
dead and forever conquered, the arch 
angel descended from heaven with such 
power and glory, that it shook the earth 
and the stone was rolled from the mouth 
of the grave, when Jesus arose and walks 
forth from death and the grave in all the 
glory and power of his resurrection. 

This glorious victory of Christ over 
death and the grave, must have wonder- 
fully surprised and discomfitted the devil 
for he knew that he had committed the 
unpardonable crime for he had attempted 
to destroy the life and liberty of Jesus, 
thereby forfeiting his own right to liberty 
and the freedom of his will. Up to this 
time Satan was permitted to enter heaven 
and accuse God's servants before him, but 
now he knew he would be forever debarred 



AND MAX 145 

that privilege for he knew that since Jesus 
Christ, the son of the woman clothed with 
the sun, was caught up to heaven and was 
seated with God on his thrown and had 
become the advocate between God and 
man, it would be useless for him (the devil) 
to undertake to accuse man before that 
court any longer, and that his only hope 
of success in any direction any more, was 
to dethrone Jesus Christ, so he marshalls 
all his spiritual hosts, and John the Reve 
lator tells us there was war in heaven 
(Rev. XI 1-7) Michael and his angels 
fought against the dragon; and the dragon 
fought and his angels, and prevailed not, 
neither was their place found any more in 
heaven. 

And the great dragon was cast out, 
that old serpent called the devil and Satan 
which deceiveth the whole world; he was 
cast out into the earth and his angels 
were cast out with him. And there was 
great joy in heaven because the accuser 
of God's servants was cast down which 
accused them before God day and night. 
And woe unto the inhabitants of the earth 

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146 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

and of the sea for the devil is come down 
into you, having great wrath because he 
knoweth he hath but a short time. 

And when the dragon saw that he was 
cast unto the earth, he persecuted the 
woman that brought forth the man child, 
(this woman please remember is the Jews 
or Jewish Church). And to the woman was 
given two wings of a great eagle. The 
Romans with Titus captured Jerusalum 
and the emblem on their battle flag was an 
eagle. And by these Romans, the Jews 
yvere carried away and scattered among 
the nations. (in the wilderness) and the 
serpent cast a flood of waters after the 
woman. These waters represent the people 
of the nations, and it is said the woman 
shall be nourished, i. e. (the Jews.) God 
will see that they are taken care of, surely 
there has been no nation persecuted as 
the Jews have been, yet God is taking care 
of them and though they are scattered 
among all nations, God will bring them 
again into their own land at his own 
appointed time, for they will turn to Christ 
and he will reign over them as their king 



AND MAN 147 

and the waters (people that the serpent 
cast out as a flood after the women) are 
the nations of Europe, Asia and Africa, 
and it looks as if John's prophesy was 
being literally fulfilled, for the earth is 
certainly swallowing those nations up at 
this time. 

And the dragon was wroth with the wo- 
man and went to make war with the rem- 
nant of her seed. Those Jews that 
accepted Christ, became the foundation 
of the Christian Church and all that have 
been added to it since we keep the com- 
mandments of God. Love to God and 
Love to man and the testimony of Jesus 
Christ. That he is the son of God and 
savior of the world and is able to and will 
save all that will come unto God through 
faith in his name. We have briefly, yet 
plainly enough to be understood, studied 
the history of man; first as a student under 
the laws of God given to man in his in- 
fancy and childhood before the fall in the 
garden of Eden and second under the laws 
of God's covenant with man through the 
institutions of the Ark and the law of 



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Circumcision. The foundation of his great 
school, the church was laid and finally 
the building was completed by Moses the 
first and greatest lawgiver and legislator of 
the Jews when he erected the Tabernacle 
in the wilderness and set in order all its 
forms and instituted all its ceremonies. 

We will now take up the study of man 
under the new covenant of Grace and Truth 
as given to us by the teaching of the 
Lord Jesus Christ and through Faith in 
him. The history of this world holds up 
to our view the lives and characters of 
four great teachers. The first in point 
of time was Moses the teacher and Law- 
giver of the Jews. His laws are so perfect 
in their construction and so just and up- 
right in their requirements that they 
govern every court of Jurish-prudence in 
the civilized world of today, and so high 
and exalted are they that no legislation 
has ever been able to improve them and 
we cannot conceive how Moses could have 
obtained wisdom and knowledge sufficient 
to have constructed them any other way 



AND MAN 149 

than the way he said, and that was through 
the inspiration of God. 

The next in time was Vespucius or 
Vetspushee of China. His laws and maxims 
and his sayings have been the controling 
power that have formed the character of 
the Mongolian race and yet they are far 
.different from the laws of Moses, for the 
laws of Moses are progressive in their 
every feature, while the laws of Vespusius 
are so binding and exacting that for thou- 
sands of years they have held the Chinese 
nation at a standstill. The next in point 
of time is Lycurgus, a Greek, of Sparta 
whose laws and legislation enabled the 
Greeks to attain a heighth in sculpture 
and other arts that have never been 
reached by any other nation, and yet 
unlike the laws of Moses, they were mixed 
with lusts and viciousness. 

The last but by no means the least 
was Jesus Christ of Nazareth, King of 
Jews. The Laws of Jesus are far above all 
other laws because they are spiritual 
more than natural in their import, and the 
kingdoms of earth are falling before them 



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and heathen nations are bowing in submis- 
sion unto them and his wisdom as a teacher 
is beyond comparision, Moses the first 
great lawgiver spake of him as follows: 

"The Lord thy God will raise up unto 
thee a prophet from the midst of thee of 
thy brethren like unto men, him shall ye 
hear" Dent. XVIII-15-18-19. 

Jesus is the greatest and wisest teacher 
that ever taught in this world; he knew 
how to condense and simplify and still 
keep all the meaning the law contained and 
ladd still more meaning to his teaching. 

He took all the laws of righteousness 
that contain our duty to God and added 
to them the service of love and condensed 
them into one, Saying "thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart and with 
all thy soul and with all thy mind." 

Then he took all the laws that govern 
our duty to man added to them the law 
of love and condensed them, into one, 
saying, "thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself." 



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These two laws goven all the spiritual 
service of the church, both under the law 
and under grace. 

Then Jesus takes all the ceremonial water, 
ablutions and washings, which were used 
in the service of the Tabernacle and grasps 
them together and gives us water baptism, 
which is a figure representing the out- 
pouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 
servants of God, which is to cleanse them 
from all sin and its pollution, for as water 
is the natural substance used to cleanse 
all natural things, so the Holy Spirit is 
the Spiritual substance used to cleanse 
all spriritual things. Likewise Jesus takes 
all the bloody sacrifices used in the cere- 
monial service of the Tabernacle which 
are a type of the sacrifice made of him- 
self for the remission of sin, and grasps 
them into one and gives us the Lord's 
supper which he declares is a memorial 
service, Luke XXII-19. 1st Cor. XI-24. 
Which he that eateth without faith, that 
is unworthily eateth damnation to himself, 
condemnation not discerning the Lord's 
body. 1st Cor. XI-24 to 29 inclusive. 



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These four laws govern all the service of 
the Christian Church both natural and 
spiritual. The first two are spiritual and 
belong to the spiritual church and service 
of God, the second belong to the natural 
church or body. They are simply confess- 
ional and have no saving qualities, yet 
to participate in them without faith is 
sacrilege while through faith they are very 
acceptable to God as our reasonable service, 
Jesus Christ having defeated Satan, the 
devil and old red dragon, on earth, re- 
deemed man from under the curse of the 
law, made atonement for all the sins of 
the world by the sacrifice of himself on 
the cross, shed his own blood for the 
remission of man's sins, destroyed the 
power of death and conquered the grave 
by his own resurrection, having chosen 
his Apostles, he set up his own kingdom 
on earth, establishing its laws and doctrines 
and sending forth his heralds to gather 
into that kingdom all men that through 
faith will accept him, as their savior and 
their lawful and glorious king. 



AND MAX 153 

Then ascending into heaven, he hurls 
the great red dragon from all that glorious 
realm, preparing a place for all that love 
him, then takes his seat beside the Great 
and glorious God on his throne as the 
advocate of all that love him. Seeing all 
these wonderful things it is not to be 
wondered at that the Apostle Paul cries 
out, "Ye are not your own, ye are bought 
with a price, therefore, Glorify God in 
your body and in your spirit, which are 
God's." 1st Cor. VI-19-20. VII-23. Acts 
XX-28. Gal. 111-13. Heb. IX-12 to 15 
inclusive. 1st Pet. 1-18-19. Rev. V-9. 
And now we come to the study of the 
history of man, under grace. And the 
first thing that will be necessary for us to 
learn will be the condition of man under 
that new law, when he is born into the 
world, and here we will take the position 
that all men are born good, pure, clean, 
and holy and are the children of the king- 
dom of the Lord and savior, Jesus Christ; 
in proof of the position we call the readers 
attention to the fact that Jesus came to 
put away sin, his very name indicates 



154 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

that fact, for the angel said to Joseph the 
fiance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and 
thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he 
shall save his people from their sins. 
Mat. 1-21. Rom. V-18-19. Heb. IX-25. 
These passages make it very plain that 
Jesus came unto the world to put away 
sin, if so, he did it or failed in his mission, 
but he did not fail, therefore, he did put 
away sin as Paul says by the sacrifice 
of himself,. We further call attention to 
the teaching of Jesus himself. He says, 
"Suffer little children to come unto me and 
forbid them not for of such is the kingdom 
of heaven," and further "except ye be con- 
verted and become as little children ye 
shall in no way enter the kingdom of 
haven," Now we conclude like this, that 
if those in the kingdom are as little child- 
ren, then little children are fit to be and 
are in the kingdom of heaven and if a 
sinner must be converted and become like 
little children before he can enter the 
kingdom of heaven, surely little children 
are fit to be and are in the kingdom of 
heaven. 



AND MAN 155 

And we are told by the Apostle John 
"in the beginning was the word and the 
word was with God and the word was 
God." 4th verse "In him was life and the 
life was the light of men." 9th verse. "That 
was the true light which lighteth every 
man that cometh into the world/' Here 
the bible plainly declares that Jesus gives 
life, i. e. light, to every man that cometh 
into the world. So we feel confident in 
saying that the bible fully sustains us in 
the position that we take that man is 
born into the world good, pure, clean and 
holy. We know that there are a great 
many preachers and teachers that dis- 
believe the doctrine of infant purity and 
they often quote where God says he w^ill 
visit the iniquity of the parents upon the 
children and other such scriptures to dis 
prove our position, but all such sciiptures 
have reference to the effects of sin and not 
to the sin itself. We know and willingly 
admit that children inherit from their 
parents defects and often the germs of 
disease, both of body and mind but these 
are not sin. If thev were, the blood of 



156 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

Christ will not cleanse from sin because 
these things remain in the mind and body 
of the believer after he has been born again 
and is admitted into the kingdom of heaven 
as a child of God, and we fearlessly affirm 
that whatever scriptures that are quoted 
that will prove that the babies are not 
holy will also prove that the believer is 
not holy, and all will freely admit the 
bible does not teach that. Some then may 
ask if all men are born pure and holy and 
are subjects of the kingdom of Christ, 
are all men saved? We answer they are 
until they reject Christ for be it remember- 
ed that being in the kingdom of God does 
not take from a man the freedom of the 
will. He can still choose to serve God or 
the devil and this choice is never taken 
away until it has ceased by limitation, 
and that will not be until the vail of the 
flesh is taken away, and final sentence is 
passed upon man and he is forever de- 
barred access to a throne of grace. This 
privilege of a free choice is held out to 
man all through the bible. When good 
old Joshua had served Israel for almost 



AND MAX 157 

a century he said to them, "choose ye 
this day whom ye will serve" Josh. XXIV 
14-15. 1st Kings XVIII-21. Jno. VI-67. 
We hope the reader will not get weary 
of the references we give although we 
repeat some of them, that go to prove the 
freedom of the will for it is the most im- 
portant fact connected with the salvation 
of man both under the law r and under 
grace, for God has never had but one way 
to save men and that was, is, and always 
will be, by faith and faith alone. Then 
it may be asked, why did God give all 
these ceremonial laws to man? We an- 
swer, for an educator and not to save him. 
And now having shown very plainly that 
according to the bible, all men are born 
free and pure and clean under the provi- 
sions of God's love and mercy, we will 
now take up the study of the relation 
of man to the bible under this law of 
Faith. We can safely and intelligently 
say that the first and greatest sin that 
any man commits is rebellion against God, 
and why? We answer, because it is the 
foundation of every other sin, and the 



158 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

first step in man's rebellion against God 
is his rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
God's beloved son. For God hath appoint- 
ed him to rule over all this kingdom and 
all men belong to Christ by purchase as 
well as by creation and preservation for 
he hath bought us by the sacrifice of his 
life and the shedding of his own precious 
blood. Then what is the result of our 
rejection of Christ as our lawful ruler? 
We answer we leave the kingdom and 
service of God and enter the kingdom of 
the devil and serve him, and the first 
punishment that we receive for this act, 
is the punishent of fear and all thinking 
men will agree with me when I say that 
fear is the greatest punishment that ever 
entered the human mind. The Apostle 
John has truly said, that fear hath torment. 
1st Jno. IV-18 and Paul says that through 
fear man is all his lifetime subject to 
bondage. Fear was the first trouble that 
came to Adam after he sinned. It is fear 
of want, that cause men to rob and steal 
and covet and often murder their fellow 
man. It is fear that keeps the sinner from 



AND MAX 159 

returning to God after he has sinned. 
Satan the adversary of man uses fear to 
keep the sinner from returning to the 
service of God, after he has left it, the 
devil all the time tries through his deceit 
and falsehood to make men believe that 
God is angry with them, and he perverts 
the word of God, like he did with Eve, 
and Christ, to try to deceive them. He 
tells them the bible says God is angry 
with the sinner every day, and that is 
false. The bible does not say God is angry 
with the sinner, but it does say God is 
angry with sin, but it also says God 
loves men and so much so that Chiist 
died for them while they weie yet sinners, 
Rom. V-8. Jno. 111-16-17. 

And the adversary tries by sometimes 
telling a part of the truth to keep men 
from returning to God. Satan tells them 
they are unworthy and he uses their own 
conscience to convince them of that truth, 
and indeed that is true for we are un- 
worthy, but that is only a part of the 
truth and to use it alone makes it a false- 
hood, for though men that are sinners 



160 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

are of and within themselves unfit and 
unworthy to come to God, yet when they 
come through Jesus their savior, he be- 
comes their worthiness therefore through 
Christ they are worthy to come to God and 
ask for, yea and obtain, forgiveness for 
their sins and be reinstated in his kingdom 
by becoming as little children. And now 
of what we have said, this is the substance ; 
all men belong to God in their infancy 
by creation and redemption, Jesus himself 
having paid the purchase price by shedding 
his own blood. So that all men are un- 
conditionally saved until they wilfully sin, 
and leave the kingdom of God. We wish 
here to notice particularly that there are 
two grades of sin and though far different 
in character, yet each kind takes the sin- 
ner out of the kingdom of God. Jesus 
Christ uses two parables to illustrate these 
two kinds of sin. One we will call wilful 
sin and is illustrated by the parable of 
the prodigal son wherein the son wilfully, 
deliberately and knowingly leaves the fath- 
er's house and service. The two particular 
features of this parable to which we call 



AND MAX 161 

attention is, first he left the father's house, 
i. e. kingdom, and went into a far country 
and there wasted or threw away all the 
father had given him and second he left 
of his own free will. Luke XV-11. And 
the other parable is the parable of the 
lost sheep. This illustrates the sin of 
ignorance or weakness. The sheep is not 
said to have gone away of its own accord 
but became lost and unintentionally left 
the fold, and there are two features of this 
parable, we wish to notice, first the lost 
sheep was out of the fold, i. e. kingdom, 
but it got out by accident. It did not go 
out of its own accord. Second, the shep- 
herd left the ninety and nine and went out 
and brought back the lost sheep regardless 
of its will or rather more properly speak- 
ing in accordance with its will for it did 
not will to be away but rather to be with 
the fold. While in the case of the prodigal 
son, the father did not go after the prodigal 
son; he had gone of his own free will and 
must return the same way. The lost sheep 
may be plainly illustrated in the life of 
the Apostle Paul when he persecuted the 
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162 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

church. He thought he was doing God's 
service. He was ignorant of the will of 
God and weak through the blindness of 
his prejudice, therefore, Jesus appeared 
the second time on earth to save him and 
told one of his followers to cure him of his 
blindness and when he saw, he repented 
of his sin, saying he was not worthy to be 
called an Apostle, for he persecuted the 
church of Christ. So we see if a sinner 
really and truly wants to be saved though 
sinning, through ignorance, God will save 
him if he has to move heaven and earth 
to do it. But we must not make the 
mistake of thinking that God will save the 
ignorant when they might learn and will 
not, for wilful ignorance is itself sin. Then 
it may be asked, if a man leaves the 
kingdom of God by sin can he return 
and how long may his probation last? 
And is there any hope of a second pro- 
bation? We will answer the first question, 
yes. The prodigal son returned and as 
to how long it may last and if there will 
be a second, we can find an answer to both 
in Jesus's parable of the vine. 



AND MAX 163 

He says "I am the vine, ye are the 
branches." Jno. XV-5-6. "He that abideth 
in me and I in him the same bringeth 
forth much fruit for without me ye can 
do nothing. If a man abide not in me he 
is cast forth as a branch and is withered 
and men gather them and cast them into 
the fire and they are burned." Now this 
we know, that a branch may be cut from one 
vine and grafted into another and grow 
and bear fruit and a branch may be cut 
from a vine and be grafted back into the 
same vine and live, grow and bear fruit, 
but if they be cut off and wither and are 
burned, can they be grafted back then? 
All know they cannot, and as to a future 
probation the bible is very plain in its 
statement of the fact that Jesus made 
his sacrifice for sin in this life and if there 
is any sacrifice for sin in the future world 
the bible does not say one w T ord about it, 
and the hope for such a thing is built upon 
speculation altogether and speculation that 
has not one single fact upon which to 
rest its foundation. In this life it is very- 
dangerous to put off our coming back to 



164 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

God, for the bible tells us that no man 
can come without the help of God's holy- 
spirit, and Jesus said when he went away 
he would send the Holy Spirit and he would 
reprove, i. e. convince, the world of sin, 
so every one may know when he feels 
he should come to God. He had far 
better come, for it is the Holy Spirit 
giving him that feeling and it is very 
dangerous to put it off, for God said to 
the antediluvian w r orld, "My spirit shall 
not always strive with man," and the 
prophet Hosea, said of Ephraim "Let him 
alone he is joined to his idols" and Jesus 
said of certain characters "Let them alone 
they are blind leaders of the blind," and 
the Apostle Paul says of Esau after he 
had sold his birthright, he found no place 
of repentance though he sought it with 
tears so we know that the safest time and 
the best time for a sinner to return to 
God is when he feels that he should. Some 
may wish to wait for an over powering 
influence of the Holy Spirit and through 
the prayers of friends and special efforts 
of the church, it may come, yet it is not 



AND MAX 165 

safe to wait for it, for in every invitation 
in the bible and it is full of them, we 
come face to face with this one fact, 
which is that all men are left to the freedom 
of their own choice. 

And this brings us to this question, 
if any one leaves the kingdom of God and 
becomes a sinner against God either by 
accident or design, how can he return and 
be admitted into God's kingdom again? 
We answer, by faith alone. We know 
there are churches that differ with us in 
the above answer so we ask the patience 
of the reader while we plainly show why 
we say we are saved by faith alone. 

In endeavoring to make ourself plainly 
understood in the above answer we wish 
first to call attention to the fact that the 
church or kingdom of God on earth is two- 
fold, as we have made plain on a former 
page. There is the temporal or body and 
there is the spirit or spiritual. While there 
is but one church or kingdom, yet the 
temporal may exist and be known without 
the spiritual. And the spiritual may exist 
without the natural, yet the natural with- 



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out the spiritual is dead and the spiritual 
without the natural though it may be 
alive is ineffectual. These facts are plainly 
taught in the bible for we are plainly told 
that the body without the spirit is dead. 
James 11-26. And Jesus told John on 
the Isle of Patmos to write to the church 
at Sardis and tell them he knew their 
works, that they had a name, they lived, 
but that they were dead, Rev. III-l. 

Now in the above quotations it is made 
plain that the body without the spirit is 
dead, the word death here means inactive, 
incapable of doing anything. We know that 
a dead body is just as perfect and complete 
a body before dissolution takes place as it 
was when it was alive but it cannot ac- 
complish anything so the outward church 
may be just as perfect as it can be made in 
its organizations, having a nice house in 
which to meet, a nice arrangement for 
music, a nice pulpit and every thing else 
up-to-date, and if the Holy spirit be lacking 
in its members, it is dead. There will 
be no fruit, nobody will be saved and on 
the other hand there must be a properly 



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organized body or the spirit cannot save 
men, for Paul says to the Romans X-14 
"How then shall they call on him in whom 
they have not believed and how shall 
they believe in him of whom they have 
not heard and how shall they hear without 
a preacher and how shall they preach 
except they be sent." And we might add, 
how can they be sent without an organized 
church to send them. So we see the king- 
dom of God i. e. the church is made up of 
two distinct characteristics, each one is 
distinct from the other in the work it 
does and yet one is dependent on the 
other for its success in the work it is 
intended to do, and yet they must work 
together in perfect harmony for neither 
one can succeed without the other, so God 
has ordained that the world shall be saved 
through both the natural and the spiritual. 
Yet there are no saving qualities in the 
natural, any farther than it is the means 
God has ordained through which men are 
to be brought into the spiritual kingdom, 
wherein they are saved and they, both 
the natural and spiritual, must be alike 



168 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

in every particular just as near as a nat- 
ural can be like a spiritual. 

So in the natural church we have two 
formal services, the baptism of water which 
is the door into the natural church and 
the formal service of the Lord's Supper 
wherein we do declare our faith in the 
broken body and shed blood of Jesus 
Christ for our full salvation from sin. 

These two are simply types to represent 
the real things that do save, first water 
baptism, by being the door into the natural 
church is a figure of the baptism of the 
Holy Spirit which is the door into and 
whereby we enter the spiritual kingdom 
or church of God and second, the Lord's 
supper is used as a figure of the broken 
body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. There is no reasonable thinking 
person who can believe for a moment 
that there are any saving qualities in the 
bread and wine used in the formal or 
outward service of the Lord's supper. 
Jesus says "Verily, verily I say unto you, 
except ye eat my flesh, and drink my 
blood ye have no life in you." Jno. VI-53. 



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All thinking persons must agree that 
this cannot be taken in a literal sense, 
but is figurative and means that we must 
believe that he died in our stead and by 
accepting him by faith, we feed our spirits 
on him and are thus kept spiritually alive, 
just as our food and drink keep our bodies 
alive, the 63rd verse of the above given 
chapter makes this plain. Jesus says, 
"It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh 
profiteth nothing." If these things be true 
the Lord's supper is simply confessional 
and has no saving qualities any more than 
we do thereby confess before men our 
faith in Christ and thereby merit his 
promise that he will confess us before the 
Father and his holy angels, Luke XIV-8. 
And we have never heard any person 
or preacher contend that there was any 
special position or mode necessary for the 
proper performance of the service of the 
Lord's supper and if one of the sacramental 
services of the church is simply figurative, 
the other must be also. So if the Lord's 
supper is a figure of the broken body and 
shed blood of Christ, the water baptism 



170 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

must be a figure of the washing and cleans- 
ing power of the Holy Ghost. 

And it is called a sacramental service, 
the word sacrament means to bind by oath, 
so by the act of baptism we take the 
oath . of allegiance to God and to his 
service. It is also called putting on Christ 
outwardly, taking upon ourselves the ob- 
ligation of the holy life, publicly confessing 
our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in 
the power of his blood to wash and cleanse 
us from all sin, and upon the part of the 
church it is a public acknowledgement that 
the person baptized is a proper person to 
enter the outward kingdom of God, as we 
have already said it is the door into the 
body of the church and is a figure of the 
door that enters into the spiritual kingdom 
of God. Now there are four things to be 
considered in connection w T ith water bap- 
tism, first, there must be a proper subject 
to be baptized. Second, there must be a 
properly commissioned administrator, one 
ordained by the church to administer the 
rite. Third, there must be clean water 
applied to the subject as a figure of the 



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application of the blood of Christ upon the 
heart or spirit of the subject, and fourth, 
it must be done in the name of the 
Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost. 
When Jesus commissioned his disciples to 
go into all the world and gather into his 
kingdom all his redeemed he said unto 
them, "Go ye into all the world and preach 
the gospel to every creature. He that 
believeth and is baptized shall be saved 
but he that believeth not, shall be damned." 
Therefore we conclude and very properly, 
that the literal meaning of baptism is to 
cleanse or to wash and in all the bible 
there is not a single sentence as to form, 
mode or position in which it shall be done, 
and the only way we have of deciding the 
mode, is simply by inference and it is 
agreed by almost all christians that there 
is no power in water to wash away sin; 
it is simply a figure of the baptism of 
the Holy Ghost that John the Baptist 
said that Jesus would baptize with, when 
he came. So if we are to get any idea of 
the mode of water baptism, we must get 
it from the mode of the spiritual baptism, 



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which it represents and the spiritual bap- 
tism is always said to be done by pouring. 

The prophet Joel 11-28-29 says, "And 
it shall come to pass afterward that I will 
pour out my spirit upon all flesh and 
your sons and your daughters shall pro- 
phesy and your old men shall dream dreams 
and your young men shall [see visions 
and also upon the servants and upon the 
handmaids in those days, will I pour out 
my spirit. 

It is generally believed that this prophesy 
of the prophet Joel had reference to the 
day of pentecost and if there is any doubt 
about that Peter in his quoting that pro- 
phesy on the day of pentecost settles 
that point. Acts 11-16-17-18. 

We might go on and give reference after 
reference about pouring out of the spirit 
and of sprinkling of clean water which 
all doubtless refer to baptism but we 
desist as we wish to be as nonsectarian 
as possible to be consistent with the truth; 
the main thing we wish to impress upon 
the mind of our reader, is that water 
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baptism, and fulfills every requirement of 
the bible without reference to mode, 
whether sprinkled on or poured on or put 
beneath it, it is all baptism, and if done 
with full purpose of serving God the 
comer thereto will not lose his reward. 
So we will leave the reader to read and 
study the bible and form his own opinions. 
And now we will take up the study of 
man under the law of faith. It will be 
remembered that we said, men w r ere saved 
by faith alone and now we will study 
the bible and see if it does not uphold 
that great truth. 

We call attention first to the gospel by 
St. John 1-11-12. It is declared that 
Jesus came unto his own, and to as many 
as received him, to them gave he power 
to become the sons of God even to them 
that believe in his name. Allow us here 
to say that believe and faith mean just 
the same thing and are often used inter- 
changeably and are perfect synonyms. 

In the above passage we find there is 
no other term expressed only to believe 
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in John 111-14 and 16 the only condition 
of being saved is faith or belief, also Jno. 
VL-40-47. XI-25-26. Acts XVI-31. Rom 
111-21-22. 1st Tim. IV-10 Rom. Ill 
26 to 30 inc. IV-4-5-9-11-13-16-24. V-l. 
We might go on with these quotations 
until oui time and the patience of the 
reader were used up, for the bible is full 
of the doctrine of salvation by faith alone. 
So we will close our references by asking 
the reader to read the XI chapter of Heb. 
and referring to the fact that in almost 
all Christ's miracles he said unto his 
patients "according to your faith be it 
unto you," showing plainly that Jesus' 
whole teaching was salvation by faith. 
Some may say "is not repentance nesces- 
sary in our salvation?" We answer, it is 
necessary because it turns us toward God 
but has no part in our saving. Bible 
repentance simply means to turn away 
from sin and we cannot turn away from 
sin only by turning toward God. And 
repentance must be preceeded and also 
succeeded by faith. We must have faith 
to believe there is a God and that we 



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are responsible to Him for our actions and 
that he loves us before we will be sorry 
for our sins and we must be sorry for our 
sins before we will ever repent or turn 
away from them, and after we have re- 
pented we must have faith to believe that 
Jesus Christ is able and willing to save us 
before we will come and ask Him to save 
us, so we see it all depends upon our faith. 
Allow me here to give an illustration. 
We will suppose a man to be afflicted with 
cancer. His home Doctor tells him 
he cannot do anything for him. He must 
die, which in nearly all instances of that 
disease is true, but this man hears of a 
doctor in some far city who can cure 
him. He sees many around him who have 
been cured, and that gives him sufficient 
faith in the doctor in that far city to go 
to him, and try him; he gets on the train 
and goes to him and takes his perscription 
and is cured; now his turning to that 
doctor and going to him on the train, did 
not cure him, but it was the prescription 
the doctor gave that cured him, yet he 
could not have been cured if he had not 



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gone. So we cannot be saved without 
repentance, but it is our faith in Jesus 
Christ which is the prescription that saves 
us and not our repentance. Please take 
another illustration, a man is in a desert 
and dying of thirst; a friend comes to him 
and tells him just back across the ridge 
there is a spring of good water, the dying 
man turns and goes to the spring and 
drinks and lives, now suppose when he 
came to the spring he had refused to drink; 
would he have been saved. Why no, 
for it is the water alone that saves him, 
so it is faith alone by which a sinner is 
saved. But we must not make the mistake 
that it is our faith that saves us, although 
it is often expressed that way, yet it is 
Jesus Christ that saves us, and we receive 
him through or by faith. I know there 
are many that teach that we are saved 
by work as well as faith, but the bible 
does not uphold that doctrine. They often 
quote that passage in James 11-14-24 where- 
in he says "was not Abraham our father 
justified by works, w^hen he had offered 
Isaac his son upon the altar. " Certainly 



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he was justified by works, but we must 
remember that there is a great deal of 
difference between salvation and justifica- 
tion as used in this instance, for we must 
remember that Abraham was saved by 
believing in God before he offered up 
Isaac and the offering of his son, proved 
to the world that he had saving faith in 
God. And further, without faith it is 
impossible to please God for how can we 
serve God until we have become his ser- 
vant. We must first take the oath of 
alliegance to God and enter his kingdom 
before we can please him by any of our 
works, and when we enter his kingdom and 
he has forgiven us and washed us and made 
us clean in his own precious blood, we are 
then fit to serve him and our good works 
are very acceptable unto him and like 
Abraham, we are justified by them. Jesus 
says, "Herein is my Father glorified that 
ye bear much fruit" John XV- 8. Also 
Mat. VII-16-19. In the above passages 
Jesus compares the christian to a tree and 
his works to the fruit thereof, now every 
thinking mind must know that there must 

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be tree before there can be any fruit, and 
in the above figure there must be a christian 
before there can be any good works, and 
this tree, i. e. Christian, must be changed 
from a corrupt tree to a good tree by faith 
alone. Paul tells us that before we be- 
come a christian we are carnally minded 
and cannot please God, Rom. VIII-1 to 
11 inc. We have been very plain in the 
foregoing, because there are a great many 
different opinions in the world about the 
salvation of men by faith alone, but I do 
not care much for opinions. They are 
apt to bias our judgment. I much prefer 
the plain truth of God, as it is in the bible 
and I believe my dear reader, you do also 
so I have given it to you by referring you 
to the bible in as brief a space as possible 
to make it plain hoping you will read all 
the references and be fully satisfied for 
yourself. The next thing we wish to 
consider is the victories of faith. In 
John VIII-32 Jesus said to those that 
believed on him, "If ye continue in my 
word ye shall know the truth and the truth 
shall make you free." And when they claim- 



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ed they were already free, Jesus told them, 
"Verily, verily I say unto you, whosoever 
committeth sin is the servant of sin," 
therefore we are in bondage to sin. And 
will faith deliver us from this bondage? 
We answer, it will. We have on a former 
page said, and to emphasize it, will repeat 
it here. That the greatest curse that ever 
came upon man because of sin, is fear. 
As soon as Adam sinned he became afraid 
of, and wanted to hide from the sight of 
God, and get away from God and this 
has been true of every sinner since that 
time. When we realize that we have 
sinned against God, our conscience con- 
demns us and Satan often uses our con- 
science to drive us further from God, tell- 
ing us we are not fit to come to God; 
that we must reform and quit our bad 
doings and anyone that ever has tried to 
reform before he comes to God for salva- 
tion knows he cannot do it and his trying 
to reform without God's help, is in itself 
a sin, for it is a denial of the truth of the 
bible for the bible says, "Can the Ethiopian 
change his skin, or the leopard his spots?'' 



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"Then may ye also do good that are ac- 
customed to do evil." Jere. XIII-23. 
So you see your effort to reform without 
God's help is a contradiction of God's 
holy word of truth, and while we feel 
unworthy to come to God, we must remember 
that God never accepts or helps any one 
because of their worthiness for there are 
none who are worthy, but God does love 
and save sinners because of their faith, 
for if we believe God, it is counted unto us 
for righteousness. Jesus says, "Come unto 
me all ye that labor and and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest." Mat. 
XI-28-29. And God says by the prophet, 
Isa. "Come now and let us reason to- 
gether," Saith the Lord "though your sins 
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as 
snow, though they be red like crimson, 
they shall be as wool." Isa. 1-18. It 
is useless to give more quotations for the 
bible is full of the expressions of God's 
love and willingness to save, and if we 
believe them it will take all fear out of 
our hearts so we see how faith will save 
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Some are afraid^, to corner to God for fear 
they cannot hold out faithfully and will 
faith relieve us from this fear? We answer, 
it will. 

We turn to the bible and we read in 
Rom. VIII beginning with 31st verse. 
What shall we then say to these things. 
If God be for us, who can be against us. 
He that spared not his own son but de- 
livered him up for us all, how shall he 
not with him also freely give us all things. 
Who shall lay anything to the charge of 
God's elect. It is God that justifieth. 

Who is he that condemneth; it is Christ 
that died, yea, rather that is risen again. 
Who is even at the right hand of God, 
who also maketh intercession for us. Who 
shall separate us from the love of Christ. 
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution 
or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 
For I am persuaded that neither death nor 
life nor angels nor principalities nor powers 
nor things present nor things to come, 
now heighth nor depth nor any other 
creature shall be able to separate us from 
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. 



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Could God have made things any strong- 
er than the above, and if we believe what 
the Apostle Paul tells us in the above 
will it not drive every fear out of ouf 
hearts and minds in regard to our ever 
failing to hold out faithful to the end? 
The next fear that men have is fear for 
the future. They are afraid that through 
failure or sickness they will come to want 
and will not be able to obtain the neces- 
sities of this life. It is this fear that 
causes more trouble than almost any other 
thing. 

And will faith remove all this fear? 
.We answer again, it will. We turn again 
to God's inspired word and w^e read the 
language of the ever blessed Christ, re- 
corded by St. Mat. VI beginning with 
the 24th and ending with the 34th verse 
and Chapter X-28 to 31. There is no 
one that can read these words of Jesus 
and believe them and have any fear of 
the future left in him but the trouble with 
us is we do not fully believe but often 
doubt. In the above references Jesus did 
not mean, we should make no plans or 



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preparation for the future, for the bible 
tells us in many places that men should 
labor to gain an honest and upright living 
in the sight of God and man, and that he 
that provided not for the necessities of 
his own house has denied the faith and is 
worse than an infidel but Jesus meant 
that we should take no trouble or anxiety 
or uneasiness for the future, for if we do 
our duty GOD will take care of us, and 
it was his design that our faith in him 
should give us perfect peace and content- 
ment. The next great fear that we meet 
is the fear for our friends and loved ones. 
We look into the faces of those we love 
and the sparkle of the eye meets sparkle, 
and smile answers smile and heart mingles 
with heart in joy and happiness, then 
disease and death looms up in the not 
far distance with its distracting visage and 
our joy is mingled pain and our happiness 
is mixed with grief and we realize that 
every pleasure has its pain, and then says 
the world, do you pretend to tell us that 
faith will free us from all fear under all 
these circumstances? And we answer with 



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confidence and experience, it surely will 
for we have seen it with our eyes and 
heard it with our ears and better still we 
have felt it in our hearts and know that 
it will, and now let us see what foundation 
we have for our faith under this severe 
test. Jesus says "Let not your heart be 
troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also 
in me. In my father's house are many 
mansions, if it were not so I would have 
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 
And if I go and prepare a place for you I 
will come again and receive you to myself 
that where I am there ye may be also." 
Jno. XIV-1-2-3. Could love, even love 
divine, dictate a more glorious promise 
than the above words of Jesus contain? 
Then dear reader, when in the depths of 
grief and sorrow let us ask our hearts, 
do we believe them, and again in Jno. 
XVII-20-21-22, Jesus in that sublime prayer 
he offered up to the father just before his 
suffering on the cross, with all the grief 
and woe and sorrow of a sinful world rest- 
ing upon his bleeding heart, cries out 
with boundless love, "Neither pray I for 



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these alone but for them also, which shall 
believe on me through their word. That 
they all m^y be one as thou Father art 
in me and I in thee, that they also may 
be one in us that the worlcj may belive 
that thou hast sent me. And the glory 
which thou gavest me give I unto them. 
That they may be one even as we are one." 
And another thing Jesus did and that was, 
he acted his love as well as talked it. We 
find him on the road to the grave of 
Lazarus with Martha and Mary and the 
Jews weeping around him and he knew 
the grief and sorrow that death brings 
and his heart of sympathy was so moved 
that Jesus wept, Jno. XI-35. I do not 
think Jesus wept because of his surround- 
ings at that time. It does not seem reason- 
able that he should, when he knew that 
he was going to raise Lazarus up and 
restore him to his loved ones very soon. 
Then why did Jesus weep? He wept 
because, being divine and knowing the 
future, he looked down the vista of ages to 
come, and seeing his loved and his own, 
as they stood around the graves of loved 



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ones that had been torn from them by the 
ruthless hand of death, and as th« clods 
rattled down on the forms of those we 
loved Jesu» saw how deep would be our 
grief, how heavy our sorrow, and his great 
heart of smypathy was so moved, that it 
wrung from his eyes tears of grief for us, 
dear reader, as we stand around the life- 
less forms of those we love. If we can 
realize that Jesus weeps with us, I think 
you w T ill agree with me, that we have a 
very strong foundation for our faith. 

God knew that the fear of death, would 
be the hardest for man to overcome of 
any other fear, so he has added promise 
to promise and revelation to revelation, 
to help us by faith to overcome that fear. 
Paul tells us, that he was caught up to 
the third heaven, and heard unspeakable 
words which is not lawful for man to utter. 
I do not think the Apostle meant, that 
it was against any written law, for him to 
tell what he saw T or heard in heaven, but 
that there was no law of language, able to 
express them, for he says they were un- 
speakable. This will not seem strange when 



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we think of the fact, that the loveliest 
things of bur hearts, are unutterable. We 
see the young mother as she folds her 
infant charms to her bosom while the love- 
light in the eye, #nd the glow of the 
cheqk, speak a language of th« heart, that 
the lips or tongue cannot utter; again we 
see a poor heartbroken sinner "bowing 
his face to earth and crying, Lord be 
merciful to me a sinner" and God hears 
that prayer, takes away his burden, and 
fills his heart with joy and gladness, and 
he lifts his voice in joyful praise to God 
for his deliverance, but his mouth can 
never speak what his heart feels. So 
Paul writes to 1st Cor. 1 1-9 a quotation 
from Isa. LXIV-4. But as it is written, 
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for those that 
love him. "With all the above gracious 
words and promises stored in our memories, 
it looks as if the foundation for our faith, 
was strong enough to sustain us, under 
any and all circumstances. 



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The next and perhaps the greatest fear 
of all is our own fear of death,' and the 
judgment and yet faith if strong or great 
enough, will remove the last and least 
remains of this fear. Before endeavoring 
to prove the foregoing position let us take 
into consideration the fact, that there is 
a lot of difference, between fear and dread. 
There is no man in his right mind, but 
who dreads death, even Jesus Christ in 
the garden, cried out in the agony of his 
human heart, " Father, if it be thy will 
let this cup pass." He realized the suffering 
and pain, of the nails driven through his 
hands and feet, and his human nature 
dreaded the ordeal, yet surely, no one that 
believes in the divinity of Jesus, will for 
a moment believe, that he was afraid to 
die, and it was only the dread of suffering 
that made his humanity shrink from it. 
We know that the bible says, it is a fear- 
ful thing to fall into the hands of the 
living God, Heb. X-31. 

And we know that the conquering of 
this fear, w^ill be a great triumph of faith, 
and yet, with all the encouraging promises 



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of God in the bible we believe it may be 
fully done. We have already told how 
Jesus promises to come again and receive 
us unto himself, and if Jesus meets us, 
at the gateway of death, which he meant 
in the above he would do, we will have 
company good enough to drive out all fear. 
The Apostle Paul when anticipating this 
fact, cried out triumphantly, u O death, 
where is thy sting, O grave, where is thy 
victory?" We receive many things by 
faith but after we have received them, 
then we know, we receive the pardon of 
our sins by faith, but when they are gone, 
then we know we receive the indwelling 
spirit of Christ by faith, but after we re- 
ceive it, it bears witness with our spirit. 
Then bless his holy name, we know, we 
are born into the kingdom of heaven and 
receive the new life by faith, but after we 
have it, the Apostle Paul says "We know 
that if our earthly house were dissolved we 
have a building of God not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens," 2nd Cor. 
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The Apostle here in these passages, speaks 
of death as no more than moving from an 
old house into a new one, or the putting 
off of an old suit of clothes and putting 
on a new suit, and conveys the idea, that 
death is not death at all but simply transi- 
tion. The Apostle John says 1st Jno. 
III-2. "Beloved now are we the sons of 
God, and it doth not appear what we 
shall be, but we know, that when he shall 
appear, we shall be like him for we shall 
see him as he is." And even better still 
than all the above, (if one truth of God can 
be said to be better than another) is where 
Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the 
life. He that believeth (has faith) in me 
though he were dead yet shall he live/' 
"And whosover liveth and believeth in 
me shall never die believest thou this" 
Jno. XI-25-26. 

Dear reader, this last question comes to 
you and me and it is almost too stupendous 
a fact for our minds to grasp. It ap- 
proaches so near to the infinite, yet we say 
we believe the bible, and sometimes we 
may ask out hearts, how much do we 



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believe it, for if we implicitly believed all 
the above it would take the last particle 
of fear our of our lives, and do what God 
intended the law of faith should do, and 
that is restore man into the full and complete 
image and likeness of God, for that is 
what God made him to be, and that is 
what God intended the law of faith to do 
for us, and if we find the above truths 
too hard for our faith to grasp, we can do 
as the disciples did and say, ''Lord Jesus 
increase our faith," and if we continue to 
pray this prayer, and faint not we have 
positive promise of God, that we shall be 
answered, Luke XVI 1 1- 1 to 8. 

And this brings us, in our study of man, 
in his relation to science and the bible, 
up to the present time. In this study we 
have learned what man was, and what 
he is and our next study of man will be 
to find out as near as possible what man 
is to be, in the future, and if we will 
properly use what we have learned about 
man, up to this present time, and add to 
this knowledge, the revelation of divine 
truth, to be found in the bible, we will 



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be able to learn all that is necessary for 
us to know in regard to the future history 
of man. In starting out to study the future 
history of man we must not forget that we 
in this study have been following two lines 
of thought the natural or science and the 
spiritual the bible. 

We will study the future history of man 
under five topics. 

First: The progress and final completion 
of the kingdom of Christ on earth, called, 
the kingdom of God, and also the kingdom 
of heaven along with this we carry on the 
history of man in his relation to science. 
In carrying out the purpose of God, and 
fulfilling the commandment of God, to 
multiply and replenish the earth and subdue 
it. 

Second: The second coming of Christ, 
when he returns to take personal possession 
and provision of his kingdom, and take up 
his spiritual reign of a thousand years, 
with his spiritual church on earth, called 
the Millennium. 

Third: The resurrection of the dead. 

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Fifth: The final triumphant entrance 
of the church, the bride and lamb's wife 
with him into the New Jerusalem. The 
city of God and be seated with Christ, 
on his throne, and with him rule over all 
the works of God's hands. 

First, the progress and final completion 
of the kingdom of Christ on earth. We have 
shown on a former page how the Lord 
Jesus Christ chose twelve Apostles from 
the Jewish church called the church under 
the law of works, ceremonies, and ordi- 
nances, and established the church of his 
kingdom, afterward called the christians, 
and laid the foundation of his kingdom 
under the law of faith. That this kingdom 
of Christ is progressing, spreading, and 
increasing in numbers, greatness, and power, 
is proven beyond controversy, both by the 
bible and the history of the world, and all 
must admit that this increase is far more 
rapid to day, than it ever was in the past. 
Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like 
unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man 
took and sowed in his field, which indeed 
is the least of all seeds but when it is 

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grown, it is the greatest among herbs, 
and again, Jesus says his kingdom is like 
unto leaven, which a woman took and hid 
in three measures of meal, till the whole 
was leavened. Mat. XIII-31-32-33. Now 
if these parables are like the kingdom of 
heaven, it must be evolutionary and pro- 
gressive in its coming, for when we plant 
a grain of mustard seed in the ground there 
is first, just a very small germ not so large 
as a pin head then a tiny sprout, then its 
roots spread out, and its top gradually 
grows, spreading its branches, until it 
becomes a tree, large enough for the fowls 
of the air to roost and shelter in. So is a 
little lump of yeast, hidden in a body of 
meal or flour. The first day, we may only 
see a very small circle around that lump 
of yeast, or leaven, but each day, we re- 
turn, and find the circle increasing, and the 
larger it gets the faster it moves, until the 
whole body is leavened. Turning to the 
book of Daniel 11-34-35-44 we find another 
figure representing the kingdom of God 
(which is the kingdom of Christ or heaven) 
as follows, 'Thou sawest, till a stone was 



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cut out without hands, which smote the 
image upon his feet that were of iron, 
and of clay, and brake them to pieces, 
then was the iron, the clay, the brass, 
the silver, and the gold broken to pieces 
together, and became like the chaff, of the 
summers threshing floors, and the wind 
carried them away that no place was found 
for them, and the stone that smote the 
image, became a great mountain, and 
filled the whole earth. When we read of 
this stone we are reminded of how when we 
were boys and girls and played in the 
snow, we would start to roll a little snow 
ball, and at first it grew very slowly, but 
as it increased in size and weight how 
rapidly it grew, until it soon became so 
large, we could move it no more. So the 
kingdom of Christ is growing each day 
more rapidly and will soon become immove- 
able. There is another feature about 
this stone figure, that Daniel uses, that 
we wish to notice, and that is it was cut 
out without hands, that means that there 
w r ere no material or natural agencies used 
in its origin or beginning, so it must have 



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been the production of divine power, and 
not of the world, and this agrees perfectly 
with what Jesus says of his kingdom, in 
the gospel by St. John XVIII-36. 

My kingdom is not of this world; if my 
kingdom were of this world, then would 
my servants fight that I should not be 
delivered to the Jews, but now is my 
kingdom not from hence. 

And when Pilate said to Jesus, 'Thou 
art a king" then, Jesus said, 'To this 
intent I was born, and for this came I 
into the world.' ' And this also agrees, 
with what is said of the kingly rule of 
Christ on earth, for he is a king, and will 
rule all nations with a rod of iron. - Psa. 
II-8-9. Rev. II-27-XII-5-XIX-15. 

Now this rod of iron with which Christ 
is to rule the world, is figurative language 
used to represent the power or force, by 
which Christ is to rule, and is interpreted 
thus, we know that iron is the strongest 
and most powerful substance in the natural 
world, for it is used to both create and 
transmit power, to run all the machinery 
in the world, and in war it is used both as 



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an offensive and defensive material, and 
as it is the strongest and most useful 
material in the natural world, it thereby 
becomes the correct figure of the strongest 
and best substance, used in the spiritual 
world. And without doubt or controversy 
that power is love, this is the two edged 
sword that issues out of his mouth, this 
is the strongest power in both the natural 
and spiritual world, it is far stronger than 
hate, therefore, must eventually conquer 
and rule over hate, and as hate is the power 
that rules this world, love will finally con- 
quer and rule over the world. This is the 
doctrine that Jesus taught, and upon it 
rests the foundation of his kingdom. Mat. 
V-43-44-45. "Ye have heard that it hath 
been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor 
and hate thine enemy. But I say unto 
you, love your enemies, bless them that 
curse you, do good to them that hate 
you, and pray for them that despitefully 
use you, and persecute you." So the weapons 
of Jesus's servants are to be, love and not 
carnal- 2nd Cor. X-3-4-5. "But mighty 



198 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

through God to the pulling down of strong 
holds. 

Casting down imaginations, and every 
high thing that exalteth itself against the 
knowledge of God, and bringing into 
captivity, every thought to the obedience 
of Christ, so by the above we are plainly 
taught, that the kingdom of Christ and the 
kingdoms of this world, are founded on 
just exactly opposite principles, and there 
is a continual warfare going on between 
them, upon the side of the kingdom of 
the world, it is hatred, bloodshed, carnage 
and persecution, but on the side of Jesus . 
and his kingdom it is love which we have 
already said, is the most powerful force, 
in earth or heaven, and will this power of 
love conquer the world? We answer it 
does, and must, for just as far as the 
spiritual is above the natural, and just so 
far as the mind is above the body, so far 
is love above hatred. We have often heard 
the old saying, that in the political world 
might was right, and always prevailed, and 
this is true but, not as the world means 
it or, the world means, that might prevails 



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over right, but this is not true, it may seem 
to for awhile, but in the end, love will 
prevail over hate, and love is might, so 
indeed, might is right. So herein we find 
the answer to our question. Will the force 
of love conquer the world? And the answer 
is, it will and both the bible and history 
confirms this answer. Looking over the 
history of the world we find that eighteen 
hundred years ago, there were just a few 
christians, (or subjects of Christ's kingdom) 
scattered here and there among the nations 
of the world, from that time down through 
the ages past, we see those Christians 
driven about from one town to another, 
and from one nation to another, persecuted, 
crucified, like their king, burned at the 
stake, imprisoned, racked and tortured, and 
yet from around the crosses on which they 
were crucified, from the ashes around the 
stake, out of the prison, and not with- 
standing their only weapon was love, still 
they increased in numbers, and there arose 
out of their sufferings, men and women to 
take their places, in the fight against 
hatred and the powers of darkness, and 



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the kingdom of Christ was upheld, and 
sustained, until there is no kingdom on 
earth today, that is as strong, and great, 
and far reaching, as the kingdom of Christ, 
and if we take for our guide, the rapidity 
with which it has increased, for the last 
hundred years, we may know, that it will 
not be long, until it shall cover the whole 
world, and the gospel of the kingdom will 
be preached to all nations. 

And here (as we will have much to say 
of that time, in connection with our study 
of the second coming of Christ, we will 
close this topic, by quoting the language 
of Jesus found in Mat. XXIV-14. 

And this gospel of the kingdom, shall be 
preached in all the world, for a witness 
unto all nations, and then shall the end 
come. Under our last topic we have given 
all our attention, to man in his relation 
to the bible, and now we will turn our 
attention, to his relation to science. It 
will be remembered by the reader, that 
we studied man in this relation up to the 
present time, and before we carry our in- 
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retrospective view of God's design and 
purpose in the creation of man. And here 
we will state a few things that we know 
and that will help us very greatly to form 
correct ideas of things in the future that 
we have not yet learned. 

First, we know that God created man a 
dual, that is to say a two fold being, the 
body and spirit and we know this was 
necessary else God would not have done it, 
and this necessity consists in the growth 
and development of man. We know we 
cannot develop the mental alone without 
doing it at the expense of the physical, 
neither can we develop the physical alone 
except at the expense of the mental, so if 
we have a perfect man we must develop 
the mental and physical both together and 
so must the spirit and body be developed 
together, therefore in order for the spirit to 
grow in wisdom and understanding and 
power it must have a body in which to do 
it, and in order to have eternal spiritual 
growth and development he must have an 
immortal and spiritual body so Jesus 
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over death and the grave in order to give 
to man this immortal spiritual body. As 
we expect to have much to say on this 
spiritual life when we come to study the 
resurrection we will turn to our investiga- 
tion of man in his relation to science. 
From the above facts we have learned that 
for man to properly carry out the purpose 
of God and obey the command to multiply 
and replenish the earth and subdue it, his 
spiritual or christian life and his scientific 
researches must be carried on and develop- 
ed together and in looking back over the 
history of science and the bible we see 
that this has been done; that side by side 
science and the bible have been carried 
on together and as it is a true saying 
that history repeats itself so it will be true 
that science and the bible or Christianity 
will continue to advance together to the 
end of time. How long that will be there 
is no one can tell, it is hidden away in 
wisdom of God. And yet w^e may know 
that it is approaching very rapidly and will 
soon be here for men today are cultivating 
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food, reaping their fields and manufacturing 
all their necessities of life by machinery 
and it has all been invented or highly 
improved in the last hundred years and 
if they continue in the next hundred to 
advance as they have in the last they will 
have so far subdued and brought into 
their service all the forces of nature that 
all the burden of labor will be lifted from 
their shoulders and man may then turn 
his whole attention to the spiritual uplift 
of the human race. But will they do it? 
We answer, yes they will, and why? We 
answer because the kingdom of Christ is 
spreading just as fast and all men are 
pressing into it. We know that there are 
many that deny this and often we hear 
it said, the world is getting worse and more 
wicked but if we will use our human reason 
in thinking of this we will know that the 
world is neither getting better nor worse 
for it has always been and always will 
be just as bad as it can be; we must re- 
member that the world and the kingdom 
of Christ is two far different things for the 
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Christ is ruled by love. So Jesus says as 
we have quoted before, "My kingdom is 
not of this world, and while this is true 
in every sense yet the subjects and citizens 
of Christ's kingdom are scattered through 
and mingle among all the kingdoms of the 
world, and here let us turn again to that 
sublime prayer of Jesus found recorded in 
the gospel by St. John XVII beginning 
with verse 11. Jesus says "And now I am 
no more in the world but these (my servants) 
are in the world and I come to thee. 
Holy Father keep through thine own name 
those whom thou hast given me that they 
may be one as we are. 12. While I was 
with them in the world I kept them in 
thy name those that thou gavest me I have 
kept and none of them is lost but the son 
of perdition that the scripture might be 
fulfilled. 13. And now I come to thee 
and these things -I speak in the world that 
they might have my joy fulfilled in them- 
selves. 14. I have given them thy word 
and they are not of the world even as I 
am not of the world. 15. I pray not that 
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but that thou shouldest keep them from 
the evil." 16. This language of Jesus is 
so plain and to the point it does not need 
any comment and in verse 13 he says. 
"As thou hast sent me into the world even 
so have I also sent them into the woild," 
and in verse 17 he says sanctify them 
(that means set them apart to a holy 
office and make them holy to fit them for 
the office) Through thy truth thy word 
is truth and lest some might think as even 
some do, that Jesus was praying for his 
disciples or his apostles alone we quote the 
20-21-22 verses wherein Jesus says "Neither 
pray I for these alone but for them also 
which shall believe on me through their 
word. That they all may be one as thou 
Father art in me and I in thee that they 
may be one in us that the world may be- 
lieve that thou hast sent me. And the 
glory which thou gavest me give I unto 
them that they may be one even as we 
are one." In connection with the above 
let us take a brief view of Christ's parable 
of the wheat and tares. Mat. XIII in 
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world. He that soweth the good seed is 
the son of man that is Jesus and his ser- 
vants for he says they are one so what- 
ever the servant does under the direct in- 
structions of Jesus. He indirectly does 
himself and the good seed are the children 
of his kingdom while the tares are the 
children of the wicked one. Now we notice 
that both grow together in the same field, 
(the world) and his servants said unto the 
master, wilt thou that we go and gather 
up the tares, and the master said Nay, 
lest when ye gather up the tares ye root 
up the wheat also, and this answers the 
question, if God be all powerful, why does 
he not destroy Satan and his followers. 
Because many of these tares, children of 
the wicked one, are turning from the service 
of Satan to the service of God every day 
and are being gathered into the garner, 
the kingdom of Christ by the reapers, his 
angels, God's servants, and because God 
intends that every one shall have the 
freedom of his choice so he is lengthening 
out the day of probation and dear reader, 
are not you with me, glad that God does 



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mercifully lengthen out the probation of 
the sinner? For had he not, long ago you 
and I would have been lifting our fruitless 
cries where hope nor mercy never could 
have reached us. So we can plainly see 
that in destroying the tares much wheat 
would be destroyed for those that are 
tares (children of Satan) to day may be 
wheat (children of Christ) tomorrow. 

And here summoning up what we have 
written. Just a short while ago man was 
plowing his fields with a wooden maulboard 
plow and reaping them with a reap hook; 
he was traveling at the rate of only thirty 
or forty miles per day. He was cooking 
his food over a wood fire. He was lighting 
his home with a tallow candle or oil lamp, 
and it took weeks for him to communicate 
over a distance of one thousand miles 
and a journey around the earth was thought 
of as a life time while today men plow, 
cultivate, and reap their fields with motor 
power, light and heat their homes with 
electricity almost turning night into day, 
travel over earth, sea and through the air 
with the swiftness of the wind and with 



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phone and telegraph talk to each other 
thousands of miles apart as if sitting in the 
same room and make books and print 
newspapers and magazines faster than they 
can be read and with all this accomplished 
and nearly all in the last hundred years 
it is neither visionary nor speculative to 
say that within a few more years man will 
do all his work with electricity for our best 
engineers tell us there is water power 
enough in the world to generate enough 
electricity to light and heat every home and 
furnish sufficient power to run all the machi- 
nery in the whole earth and when a force 
is found, men have always found a way 
to use it and men are multiplying just in 
proportion to their advancement in science 
and will soon replenish the earth with 
their posterity and when man has ac- 
complished these two lines of service and 
learning, they will have fulfilled the com- 
mandments God gave them on that line 
and be ready to graduate in that school 
and be advanced to the next higher grade 
of learning. What that may be we cannot 
yet know but we do know that man will 



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forever learn. And here we will turn and 
sum up the facts we have learned about 
the growth and advancement of the king- 
dom of Christ. We know that it has not 
been long since the doors of many nations 
were closed against Christ and his kingdom. 
There were China, Japan, Turkey and 
India with Africa and much of South 
America who would murder and some of 
them devour the missionaries of Christ as 
soon as they entered their domain but 
today they have flung wide their doors 
and are holding out their hands to servants 
of Christ and are crying out with all their 
hearts, "Come over and help us." There 
is not a nation on earth today that will 
not let a missionary of the Cross enter it. 
And turning our thoughts to the spiritual 
machinery of the church we find it equipped 
as efficiently as the equipments of science. 
It has its churches and its church extension 
societies it has its schools and its colleges, 
its missionary societies, its Sunday Schools, 
its book concers and its bible societies with 
its thousands of missionaries increasing 
every day with its millions of money, its 

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freewill offerings to carry on the work of 
evangelizing these nations, that are calling 
for them and we are seeing the prophecy 
of Isa. fulfilled before our eyes. Isa. LXVI 
8. Who hath heard such a thing? Shall 
the earth be made to bring forth in one 
day or shall a nation be born at once? 
For as soon as Zion travailed she bringeth 
forth her children. With all the above facts 
;so clearly visible he must be blind indeed 
that cannot see the kingdom of Christ 
swiftly growing and developing into com- 
pletion and with all these historical proofs 
before us, all thinking persons must know 
that with all the power, opportunity, and 
ability of the kingdom of Christ being put 
forth today it will be but a very short 
time until the bible is preached in all the 
world when Jesus says then cometh the 
end, but no doubt many will say how can 
these things be done when at this time 
over half the world is engaged in the most 
cruel, destructive and bloodiest war that 
ever has been known since the world began? 
We answer this is the fulfilling of the 
prophecy of Jesus. Mat. XXIV-6-7. "And 



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ye shall hear of wars and rumors of war, 
see that ye be not troubled for all these 
things must come to pass but the end is 
not yet. 7. For nation shall rise against 
nation and kingdom against kingdom and 
there shall be famines and pestilences and 
earthquakes in divers places. And there 
comes into the mind of many these ques- 
tions; Why is it so? Why must these 
things be? And every converted and saved 
man and woman who has entered the ser- 
vice and kingdom of Christ has the answer 
to these questions in their own experience 
for they all know that they never would 
or did surrender to God until there last 
resource was exhausted and hope itself 
was lost, then, and not till then, were 
they willing to give themselves into the 
hands of God, and let him have his own 
way with their hearts, and no sinner was 
or ever will be saved, until he does that 
thing, and whatever is true of an individu- 
al is by extension true of a nation for a 
nation is simply individuals multiplied, and 
further, no one was ever permitted to 
become a subject of the kingdom of Christ, 



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until he had given up all his idols, for 
idolatry, is positively forbidden by the 
laws of the kingdom of Christ, and no 
citizen of one nation or kingdom, can ever 
become a citizen of any other nation or 
kingdom, until he complies with the laws 
of the country, in which he disires to be- 
come a citizen. We read in the bible that 
all the kingdoms of this world are to 
become the kingdom of our Lord Jesus 
Christ Rev. XM5. Dan. 11-44. 1st Cor. 
XV-25. 

And as we have said no man or number 
of men will give up their idols and sur- 
render to God until they are reduced to 
proverty and want and have come to the 
end of their strength, hence the wars and 
then some may say does God send wars 
and has he sent this terrible war among 
the nations of Europe at this time? We 
answer, no not by any means. Those 
nations wanted to arm and get ready for 
war and when they got ready they wanted 
to fight and God lets them fight because 
God does not take from man the freedom 
of choice. God wants to save these nations 



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but they will not let him. We have said 
the world was ruled by the spirit of hate 
and these nations are of the world and it is 
the spirit of hate that rules them. It is 
envy and covetousness, jealousy and strife, 
all of which are the properties of hate. 
A good many in our own country now are 
crying out for preparedness, for war, and 
just so sure as they get fully prepared to 
fight they will want to fight, because it 
is the spirit of the world that makes a 
nation want to prepare for war, the spirit 
of hate always begets the spirit of fear, 
no one is afraid of those he loves, it is 
those that are hated that are feared. We 
are made to wonder that any true christian 
can advocate the principle of great pre- 
paredness for war. The christian warfare 
is the warfare of love not hatred, the 
kingdom of Christ is set up and carried 
on, sustained and ruled, by love. Does 
not God take care of it? Does love load 
down its devotees with weapons of death 
and destruction? Does love muder? Does 
it make widows and orphans? Cannot and 
will not God take care of those that love 



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him and put their trust in him? It is 
very plain that those who want to load 
up our beloved land of the free with a 
stupendous army and navy have left God 
out of their considerations, and it may 
be asked, will war make the nations of 
Europe turn away from their idols? It 
will surely reduce them to poverty and 
want, at least it is doing that now, just 
as fast as it can and when their resources 
are all gone and poverty and pain and 
death and pestilence stalks abroad in their 
land they will begin to think and try to 
find out what all this blood shed and 
destruction of life and property has been 
for and what it has accomplished to benefit 
the common people. They have not time 
to think of that now; all they are thinking 
about now is how to destroy and conquer 
each other, but it cannot last always. 
The day must and will come and according 
to present destruction of men and means 
must come soon, and when it does come 
the common people will find out they 
have been worshipping at least two idols, 
one is the idol of heroism and the other 



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monarchy. The one man power or the 
aristocracy rule of the few over the many. 
All of which are the relics of barbarism, 
paganism and heathenism and it matters 
not whether they be exercised in church 
or country or nation they must fall. They 
are relics of darkness, ignorance and sup- 
erstition and the throne of every king, 
pope, priest, potentate, lord or aristocrat 
rests upon ingorance and superstition and 
the light of education and civilization is 
bound to be their destruction. The de- 
claration of our great Lincoln must and will 
come true. "You can fool part of the 
people all the time and you can fool all 
the people part of the time but you cannot 
fool all the people all the time." Monarchy 
is in its last struggles, that is why they are 
fighting so hard and recklessly, sacrificing 
everything within their reach to sustain 
their authority but it must and shall end, 
for when this greatest and bloodiest war is 
over the people of those nations are going 
to learn this great truth that there is only 
one kind of government that is safe and 
that can bring happiness and peace, to 



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its subjects and that is 'The government 
of the people by the people and for the 
people." There may be some that hoot 
at this idea as visionary but it must and 
shall come and come soon for it is the 
government of the kingdom of our great 
and glorious Christ and we have already 
shown that his kingdom will soon crush 
out and destroy all other kingdoms for it 
is positively against the laws of his kingdom 
for one man to rule or exercise rule or 
authority over another. Hear his eternal 
law Mat. XX-25-26-27. Ye know that the 
princes of the gentiles exercise dominion 
over them and they that are great exercise 
authority upon them. 

But it shall not be so among you but 
whosoever will be great among you let 
him be your minister. And whosoever 
will be chief among you let him be your 
servant. Even the son of man came not 
to be ministered unto but to minister and 
give his life for many. And this, dear 
reader, brings us unto the second topic 
in our discussion of the future relation of 
man to the bible, i. e. the spiritual world, 



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the kingdom of Christ and is designated 
as the, second coming of Christ. 

This great event is spoken of as one, 
yet is twofold in its nature, and in its 
purpose and its characteristic operation, 
the Lord Jesus Christ distinctly lines out 
this twofold nature of his coming in his 
teachings to his diciples and in order to 
be plainly understood by our readers we 
call this twofold coming of Christ bv first 
his spiritual and second his personal' com- 
ing. 

As the spiritual coming is to be first, 
we will give to it our first consideration.' 
After Jesus had risen from the dead, and 
fully established that fact unto his followers 
Even unto doubting Thomas, before he 
ascended into heaven to take his seat with 
the Father on his throne he gave to his 
diciples his final instructions as to the set- 
ting up and establishing of his kingdom 
saying unto them, Go ye into all the 
world and teach all nations baptizing 
them in the name of the Father, and of 
the son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching 
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I have commanded you and, Lo, I am 
with you even unto the end of the world." 
Mat. XXVI 1 1-19-20 we find this same 
commission given also in Mark XXI-15-16. 
Act 1-8. John XIV-23. Rev. 111-20. 

In all the above references Jesus posi- 
tively declares that he is going to be with 
his people and dwell with them continually 
during their sojourn on earth. That this 
constant presence of Christ with his people 
is a spiritual and not a personal presence. 
This is fully proven by the declaration 
of the bible that Jesus is sitting personally 
on the throne of his Father as the advocate 
of his servants and also by the work that 
Jesus is carrying on in his kingdom here on 
earth. This work is in connection and in 
perfect harmony with the work of the 
Holy Spirit. It is this spiritual presence 
of Christ that goes with the evanglist into 
all the world and enforces their words of 
truth upon the hearts and consciences of 
the hearer, convincing them of sin and 
when the sinner turns to God through 
faith it is this same power that washes 
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that great transformation and regeneration 
called the new birth brings him into the 
kingdom of Christ and then sanctifies the 
believer and sets him apart to the holy 
work of the service of God. And after- 
ward this same spirit becomes a testifier, 
and bears witness with the spirit of the 
believer that he is a child of God and a 
citizen of his glorious and victorious king- 
dom. 

There are some things that we wish to 
notice in connection with the above facts; 
the first is that no one can possibly enter 
the kingdom of Christ until he is washed, 
cleansed from all sin and made holy for 
it is positively against the laws of that 
kingdom for any thing that is unholy to 
enter it, this does not mean that we should 
be worthy or feel worthy because we do 
not prepare ourselves to enter, God does 
not save us according to our works but 
according to our faith, we believe God and 
it is counted unto us for righteousness and 
God through his son Jesus Christ and his 
righteousness cleanses us and makes us 
holy and fits us to enter his kingdom and 



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we know that as he is that begeteth so 
is he that is begotten so God is holy, so 
are his children so there is no room in God's 
kingdom for that kind of, I am holier 
than thou religion. A man may be very 
weak in the faith and life hardly visible 
we know that while Jesus was here on his 
mission that sometimes when he cast out 
devils, the one the devils went out of 
seemed to be dead, so much so that those 
standing by said they were dead, but 
surely no one would dare say the devils 
were not all gone out of him, and when 
Christ spoke the word they were fully 
alive; some are weak in the faith and feel 
so unworthy that they do not feel as if 
they could get up before the world and say 
I am holy, sanctified wholely, and so on 
but some time God may testify for them 
and do it to the shame of some that have 
turned from them. Paul had reference to 
these weak ones when he said "him that 
is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to 
doubtfuly disputations," Rom. XIV-1-2-3-4. 
We might bring many more bible proofs 
to show this spiritual coming of Christ 



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to dwell with his servants on earth but do 
not wish to make our book too large to 
be convenient, therefore, ask the reader to 
read them in the bible for himself, and we 
will here begin our investigation of the 
second coming of Christ in that personal 
manner in which we are told that every 
eye shall see him Rev. 1-7. Jesus himself 
describes this second coming as follows. 
"For as the lightning cometh out of the 
east and shineth even unto the west so 
shall the coming of the son of man be 
and in Acts 1-9-10-11 we read as follows: 
"And when he (Jesus) had spoken these 
things while they beheld he was taken up 
and a cloud received him out of their 
sight. (10) And while they looked stead- 
fastly toward heaven as he went up behold 
two men stood by them in white apparel. 
(11) Which also said ye men of Galilee 
why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This 
same Jesus which is taken up from you 
into heaven shall so come in like manner 
as ye have seen him go into heaven. " 
This ascension of Christ into heaven was 



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certainly a personal one, and it was declared 
he would return in like manner. 

Jesus taught his followers to pray to the 
Father, "Thy kingdom come," and also 
commanded them to watch, constantly and 
vigilantly watch for they knew not at what 
hour their Lord would return, and this 
praying, and continually watching creates 
in the mind and heart of every christian, 
a desire to know when Jesus will return 
again to earth, to take personal supervi- 
sion of his kingdom and yet notwithstand- 
ing this longing in the hearts of all God's 
people, He in his wisdom has saw fit to 
conceal it from them. Jesus told his 
disciples, "of that day and hour knoweth no 
man no not the angels which are in heaven, 
neither the son but the father. " 

"Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye 
know not when the time is, Mar. XIII-32- 
33. 

And yet while we cannot know the exact 
time of the second coming of Christ, we 
are not left wholy in the dark, for there 
are four great events that point definitely 
to that time. First man must multiply 



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and replenish the earth and subdue it, 
as we have already shown. Then he will 
be ready to pass on in his learning to the 
next higher grade. 

Second, war and strife must cease on the 
earth, for God has spoken by the mouth 
of his prophets that the time will come 
when men, "Shall beat their swords into 
plowshears and their spears into prooning 
hooks (or scythes) and they would not 
learn war any more/' read Isah. 1 1-4. 
Micah. III-l to 7. 

Third, the kingdom of Christ must crush 
and destroy all other kingdoms and powers, 
see Dan. 11-44-45. VII-13-14-27. Rev. 
XI-15. The apostle Paul in speaking of 
this event says, 1st Cor. XV. 24 to 28. 

4 'Then cometh the end when he shall 
have delivered up the kingdom to God, 
even the Father; when he shall have put 
down all rule and all authority for he must 
reign, until he hath put all enemies under 
his feet." We see in the above language 
that all rule and all authority must be put 
down. 



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It matters not whether it be invested in 
state or church or priest for they are all 
included in the above Rule and authority.' ' 
Some may say this is visionary, mere 
speculation, how will, how can society be 
conducted without a head or leader. We 
answer it cannot, but there is a great 
difference between a head or leader and 
power to rule. The power to rule must 
rest with the people; in the kingdom of 
Christ all God's children are equal. This 
is the law of Christ's kingdom that he 
himself laid down while here on earth. 

And this brings us to the fourth line of 
proof that points us to the second personal 
coming of Christ, namely the preaching of 
the gospel of the kingdom in all the world. 
Jesus says in Mat. XXIV-14, "And this 
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in 
all the world for a witness unto all nations 
and then shall the end come." 

Jesus did not mean that the gospel should 
be preached in one part of the world at 
one time and in another part at another 
time but he did mean that the gospel 
should be preached in all the world at the 



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same time and from all present indications 
that will soon be done. Then says Jesus 
"Cometh the end." And, it may be asked, 
the end of what? First, the end of man's 
labor and toil for he will have accomplished 
the task that God gave him to do and 
second, The end of all war and strife and 
bloodshed and Third, the end of all earth- 
ly rule, and authority, and power, and 
fourth, the end of man's probation for all 
will have been offered free pardon and 
salvation through the preaching of the 
gospel and all mankind will have had the 
freedom of their choice between the ser- 
vice of God and the service of the devil 
and this choice will be final and eternal. 
The apostle Peter says in his 1st Epistle 
IV- 7. "But the end of all things is at hand 
be ye therefore sober and watch unto pray- 
er." And says Jesus "Then shall appear 
the sign of the son of man in heaven," and 
what is to be the sign, the brightness and 
glory of his presence, which shall be like 
the brightness of lightning shining from one 
part of heaven to the other and the clouds 
which surround represent the myriads of 

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angels and saints that he is going to bring 
with him." 1st Thes. IV-13 to 17. In 
Mat. XXIV-32-33 Jesus says. 

"Now learn a parable of the fig tree when 
his branches are yet tender and putteth 
forth leaves. Ye know that summer is 
nigh. 

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these 
things, know that it is near even at the 
doors." 

And this brings us to the third topic 
of our investigation of man's future re- 
lation to the bible, or the spiritual world. 

The resurrection of the dead. This 
word resurrection has two distinct mean- 
ings, the first or primary meaning is to 
stand again and by extension to continue 
to live after death, while the other meaning 
is to be made alive again from the dead. 
These two meanings of the word resurrec- 
tion may be always known by the pre- 
positions that follow them. The first is 
always followed by the preposition of, while 
the other is always followed by the pre- 
position, from. Jesus Christ in answering 
the Sadducees Mat. XXII-29-30-31-32. says 



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"Ye do err not knowing the scripture nor 
the power of God, for in the resurrection 
they neither marry nor are given in mar- 
riage but are as the angels of God in heaven 
but as touching the resurrection of the 
dead have ye not read that which was 
spoken unto you by God saying I am the 
God of Abraham and the God of Isaac 
and the God of Jacob. God is not the God 
of the dead but of the living. M 

Now we notice that in the above quota- 
tion Jesus in referring to the resurrection 
in reference to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 
uses the preposition, of, and we know 
that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had not 
risen from the dead for the bible declares 
positively that Jesus was the first that 
ever rose from the dead. 

In order that we may be fully under- 
stood in our exegeses or interpretation of 
the bible we wish here to make the follow- 
ing proposition. First that man is a dual 
being, made up of body and spirit, that 
by the uniting of these two, man becomes 
a living soul. And the separation of the 
spirit from the body causes the death and 



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destruction of that body and the destruc- 
tion of the soul follows as a sequence and 
this separation of spirit and body is what 
constitutes death and this death was the 
result of Adam's sin, and fall, and the 
spirit being immortal cannot die, but will 
live on forever and retain all the attributes 
and likeness of the man while it and the 
body were joined together and as it was 
a partner in the sin and fall of man it 
must reap the results and punishment of 
its part in that sin, which was fear, and 
shame and sorrow: and further, it loses its 
identity as a living soul or man, and under 
the law must remain forever guilty before 
God simply a disembodied spirit for no 
place in the bible is there any promise 
of the resurrection of the natural body. 
And that Adam being the father and re- 
presentative head of all men the whole human 
race inherited all the results of his sin 
by being born into his family, and second 
God so loved the world, i. e. mankind, that 
he gave his only begotten son that who- 
soever believeth in him should not perish 
but have everlasting life. This son of 



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God, Jesus, which means savior by the 
sacrifice of himself, put away sin and 
through his obedience unto laws, redeemed 
man from under the law of sin and death, 
thereby becoming the second Adam and 
representative head of the human race. 
So that whatever man lost through the 
sin and disobedience of Adam he regains 
through the righteousness and obedience 
of Christ. For as in Adam all die even so 
in Christ shall all be made alive, 1st Cor. 
XV-22. Now we notice one very definite 
fact in connection with the above text 
and that is we die because we are in Adam, 
even sojmust we in Christ be made alive. 
Then-; if that be true, can any man which 
is not in Christ be made alive? And the 
only reasonable answer is they cannot, 
then if a man can only be made alive by 
being in Christ we ask in all common 
reason, how are the wicked ever going to 
be resurrected? And the only answer again 
is, they cannot. So this plainly proves 
that the wicked in the world to come must 
forever remain a disembodied spirit, for 
we are^told in many places in the bible 



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that this natural body must return to 
the earth from which it was taken. "From 
dust thou art and to dust shalt thou re- 
turn." Gen. 111-19. Eccts. XII-7. 

This is to be the destiny of all Adam's 
race, and will these natural bodies ever 
be raised again? We have no proof any 
where in the bible that they ever will, 
but on the contrary there are some very 
strong proofs that they never will. Job. 
says, "As the cloud is consumed and van- 
isheth away, so he that goeth down to the 
grave shall come up no more. He shall 
return no more to his house neither shall 
his place know him any more." Job. 
VI 1-9-10. And the Apostle Paul in his 
plain discussion of the resurrection from the 
dead in 1st Cor. XV-50 says, "Now this 
I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth 
corruption inherit incorruption." And in 
verse 53 he says "this corruptible must 
put on incorruption." Now what is cor- 
ruption? Answer, it is the mixing or 
commingling together of two or more 
articles of different substance so the natural 



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body made up of parts is corrupt but the 
spirit being only one substance is not 
corrupt by itself but when joined to the 
corrupt body the whole man becomes 
corrupt, and further we know the natural 
body is corrupt and Paul says it cannot 
inherit incorruption. 

So we learn from the above that there is 
no hope of the resurrection of the natural 
body. Then it may be asked if the dead 
natural bodies of man are not raised again 
to life what is meant by the resurrection 
from the dead? We turn again to 1st 
Cor. XV-44 where Paul tells us. 'There 
is a natural body and there is a spiritual 
body." And reading further on he tells 
us we receive the natural body through 
our birth into the natural family of the 
natural Adam and we get our spiritual 
body through Jesus Christ which is the 
spiritual and second Adam, and as we have 
borne the natural we shall also bear the 
heavenly or spiritual and this constitutes 
the resurrection from the dead. All God's 
children are raised out of or from thi s 
dead corruptible Adamic body and put on 



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or put into the new and living spiritual 
body that comes through Jesus Christ. 
Could any one ask for or imagine a better 
or more glorious resurrection? 

And here it may be asked, how and when 
will the resurrection take place? 

We answer that the day of the resurrec- 
tion spoken of in the bible is a generic 
or progressive day and it began when the 
Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead and 
will not end until the second personal 
coming of Christ and as to how it is 
to take place the bible tells us we are to 
be born into this new life. Turning to 
the gospel by St. John 1-12-13, we read, 
"But as many as received him, to them 
gave he power to become the sons of God 
even to them that believe on his name." 
Which were born not of blood nor of the 
will of the flesh nor of the will of man but 
of God and in chapter 1 1 1-3 to 19. Jesus 
said to Nicodemus, ' 'Verily verily I say 
unto thee except a man be born again, 
(margin from above) he cannot see the 
kingdom of God." And again in verse 5 
Jesus says, verily, ; verily I say unto thee 



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except a man be born of water and of 
the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of 
God. 6. That which is born of the flesh 
is flesh and that which is born of the 
spirit is spirit. 7. Marvel not that I said unto 
thee, ye must be born again. 8. The wind 
bloweth where it listeth, i. e. pleaseth, 
and thou hearest the sound thereof but 
canst not tell from whence it cometh and 
whither it goeth so is every one born of 
the spirit." In the language of the bible 
given above we have one of the most 
wonderful lessons taught us that the world 
has ever known, and though couched in 
figurative language, when properly studied, 
it becomes very plain. 

In the above lesson the great and alwise 
teacher who in the beginning was with 
God and was God, uses the figure of a 
birth to represent both the bringing in of 
a new life and the resurrection of the 
old life from the dead. Now let us first 
consider this figure of a birth. It is im- 
possible for us to hold in our minds the 
idea of a birth without associating with 
that idea the production of a body and 



234 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

this birth being a spiritual birth produces 
or brings forth a spiritual body for Jesus 
says in the above. "That which is born 
of the spirit is spirit/ ' And this constitutes 
the new birth, variously expressed thus 
born of God, regenerated, created anew 
in Christ Jesus and so on, all expressions 
of the most definite character, and the 
raising of the spirit of man out of or from 
the old corrupt Adamic body and placing 
in or clothing it with this new-born 
spiritual body constitutes the resurrection 
from the dead and the union of the spirit 
of man with this spiritual body, makes the 
sou limmortal and preserves it unto ever- 
lasting life. Could the consumation of a 
more wonderful and glorious woik of an 
alwise and omnipotent and eternal God be 
conceived in or revealed unto the heart 
and mind of man by divine truth, and this 
makes us here want to again repeat that 
there is no man, no, nor all men that can 
comprehend, understand or explain the 
origin growth and development of a human 
soul. 



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With the above facts fixed in our minds 
let us turn again to the words of the divine 
teacher in Jon. XI-25. 

Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrec- 
tion and the life he that believeth in me 
though he were dead yet shall he live. 
And whosoever liveth and believeth in 
me shall never die." 

Xow let us study this lesson Jesus gave 
to Martha, first he says, "I am the resur- 
rection and the life." He here means he 
is the author of the resurrection and the 
life, it must come throught him and by 
him. Now we have already shown that 
Jesus was with the believer in his heart 
and mind, now if we have Jesus dwelling 
in us and he is the resurrection and the 
life have we not the resurrection and the 
life? Yes says one, by promise yes, and 
more we have it by possession also for we 
already have Jesus by possession and 
further, he that believeth in me though he 
were dead, dead in trespasses and in sins, 
dead under the law, "yet shall he live," 
by being born again, created anew in Christ 
Jesus, resurrected from the old dead life 



236 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

in Adam into the new born life in Christ. 
This is what Jesus meant when he said" 
though he were dead, yet shall he live." 
And he that liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die. That is continues to be- 
lieve in me (lives a life of faith) he shall 
never die, the old Adamic body, the carnal 
fleshly body dies and returns to dust as 
it was, but by the spirit being cleansed 
from sin and put into the new spiritual 
body, man becomes a new living soul and 
being all spiritual is complete in the image 
and likeness of God and lives on for ever, 
and Jesus says to us as he said to Martha, 
"Believest thou this," and here we may ask 
ourselves, dear reader, do we, you and I 
do we believe all the above, do you and 
I believe that Jesus can save in the fashion 
spoken of above and if we do believe it 
with all our heart, all else does not matter. 
We might bring much proof from the bible 
to prove the above facts for the bible is 
full of the proof and not one word in all 
its truthful teaching to contradict it, but 
more proof is not necessary. The words 
of Jesus are sufficient, and here some may 



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ask after a man has been born again and 
brought into the kingdom of Christ can 
or does he sin any more. We answer if 
he remains in the kingdom he cannot but 
as he has entered through faith, that 
is to say belief, he can go out through 
disbelief, and when he gets out of the 
kingdom then he can and does sin, but can 
he go out of his own will; he certainly can, 
for as we have repeatedly said God does 
not take the free will from any one, but as 
long as he remains in the kingdom, he 
cannot sin. Lest we be misunderstood, 
we will give here a plain illustration. 
We take for example a child, we wash its 
body clean and put clean clothes on it 
then we put it into a clean room, can it 
get dirty w^hile it remains in the room. 
Certainly not, but if the door is left open 
and it goes out then it can and will get 
dirty. Jesus says to the church of Philad- 
elphia Rev. II. ' 'Behold I have set before 
thee an open door and no man can shut 
it." So the door into God's kingdom stands 
open and one may go out as well as go in, 
but the kingdom of God is clean and a 



238 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

sinner must be cleansed before he can 
enter it and he cannot sin or get filthy 
while he is in there and that is what is 
meant in 1st Jno. III-9. "Whosoever is 
born of God doth not commit sin for his 
seed remaineth in him and he cannot 
sin." And yet Jesus says "to him that 
hath shall be given and to him that hath 
not shall be taken away even that which he 
hath," These words of Jesus are found in 
the parable of the talents, found in Mat. 
XV-14 to 30. 

And as we have said, the wicked who 
were not in Christ would never be raised 
from the dead but forever remain dis- 
embodied spirits. We will here examine 
the bible and see if it does not prove that 
to be true. We have already shown that 
only those that were in Christ were raised 
from the dead and as the wicked are 
not in Christ they cannot be raised from 
the dead. 

But says some, does not the bible say 
there is to be a resurrection both of the 
just and the unjust? Yes, it says that, 
but we have already shown that there 



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are two kinds of resurrection one is of the 
dead and the other is from the dead and 
in Jno. V-28-29. Jesus makes a plain 
distinction between these two kinds of the 
resurrection, saying; "All that are in the 
graves shall hear his voice and shall come 
forth." They that have done good unto 
the resurrection of life and they that have 
done evil unto the resurrection of damna- 
tion. 

And further these two kinds of resurrec- 
tion are to take place at two different times. 
Paul tells us that the dead in Christ shall 
rise first, 1st Thes. IV-16. These are to 
be raised when Christ comes the second 
time and are to be brought with him, 
see also Rev. XX-4-5. 

And I saw the souls of them that were 
beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for 
the word of God, and which had not 
worshipped the beast, neither his image, 
neither had received his mark upon their 
forehead or in their hands and they lived 
and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 
Now we notice that these were alive, it 
says they lived. 



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And after the thousand years were ended 
John the Revelator says in verse 12. 
"And I saw the dead, small and great 
stand before God, and the books were 
opened and another book was opened 
which is the book of life and the dead were 
judged out of those things which were 
written in the books according to their 
works." 

Xow there are two distinct features in 
connection with this last resurrection that 
are very different from the first, one is 
that they were dead. John says, I saw the 
dead stand before God and second the dead 
were judged according to their works, God's 
children those of the first resurrection were 
not judged according to their works, in 
fact they were not judged at all but they 
w r ere rewarded according to their faith. 
Paul says in Rom. VIII-1. There is 
therefore now no condemnation to those 
which are in Christ Jesus, that is there is 
no judgment, and further John says death 
and hell gave up the dead that were in 
them and none of these were God's people 
for none of God's people were ever in 



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either death or hell and further still death 
and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is the second death. 

And whosoever was not found written 
in the book of life was cast into the lake 
of fire. 

And no dead person was ever written in 
the book of life, that would be a misnomer, 
a contradiction of terms. So all these 
dead were cast into the lake of fire and this 
is the resurrection of damnation, surely 
far different from the resurrection of life. 

And this brings us to the consideration 
of the second proposition, that is, when 
does this first resurrection from the dead 
take place? We have said, before, it 
began when Jesus rose from the dead and 
will last until the last one of God's children 
are raised from the dead. We shall not 
attempt to bring any proof that Christ 
rose from the dead, it has already been 
proven by so much testimony that it is 
useless to bring any here, but simply say 
that Jesus rose from the dead. But there 
are some things connected with the resur- 
rection of Christ that we wish to notice 

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242 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

very particularly. We will here notice the 
history connected with that event recorded 
by St. Mat. XXVII which is as follows: 
verse 50. Jesus when he had cried again 
with a loud voice yielded up the ghost. 
51. And behold the vail of the temple was 
rent in twain from the top to the bottom 
and the earth did quake and the rocks 
rent. 52. And the graves were opened 
and many bodies of the saints which slept 
arose. 53. And came out of the graves 
after his resurrection and went into the 
Holy City and appeared unto many. Now 
what we wish to notice is the resurrection 
of the saints at the time of or immediately 
after the resurrection of Christ. 

The bible says many bodies of the saints 
arose and here the question arises, what 
did the Apostle Mathew mean by many 
bodies. Now the word body has two 
different meanings. First it means a single 
person and second it means a large com- 
pany, we speak of large bodies of soldiers 
or many bodies of cavalry the meaning in 
both the last references is a large company. 
So the word body may mean a single 



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individual or a large company and in the 
sentence, many bodies of saints it means 
many companies of the saints arose. This 
is true from the fact that if personal bodies 
were meant it would have been written 
that many of the bodies of the saints, but 
the word the does not appear in that 
connection so it must mean, many com. 
panies of the saints arose and these many 
companies of the saints means all the 
saints that had died in the faith with 
faithful Abraham up to the resurrection 
of Christ, arose immediately after Christ 
and this was the beginning of the first 
resurrection and it has been continually 
in progress ever since. Everyone that has 
been born into Christ has put off the 
old man and put on the new, have been 
raised from the dead Adam into the living 
Christ and this will continue until Christ 
comes again and here we are met with this 
question what is the difference between 
the death of a christian (a beliver in Christ) 
and a sinner (a disbeliever in Christ.) 
And we answer, in so far as that which 
dies is concerned there is no difference at 



244 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

all, one common lot comes to all that are 
born into Adam. All that are in Adam die. 
The bible in Eccts. XII-7, says, "Then 
shall the dust (the natural body) return 
to the earth as it was and the spirit shall 
return unto God who gave it." 

This is a plain statement of a plain fact. 
In the above, Solomon tells us that the 
body dies and returns to the earth as it 
was, but the spirit does not die, for he 
says it returns to God. Now this one fact 
is made plain to us that in death the body 
and spirit are separated. Each one re- 
turning to that from whence it came. 
And the difference between the children 
of Christ and the children of Adam is 
with the spirits that return to God. The 
Adamic bodies are just the same but the 
spirits of the children of Adam remain 
forever without body or soul both having 
been destroyed in hell, the grave or death. 
Mat. X-28. While the spirits of the child- 
ren of God are given new spiritual bodies. 
As we have already shown in the new 
birth and resurrection and at death they 
both go to God and he makes such dis- 



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position of them in his righteousness as he 
sees fit and here we are met with another 
question what does God do with the dead? 
There is but very little said in the bible 
in answer to the above question, but 
what is said is very plain. 

Jesus teaches in his lesson of the rich 
man and Lazarus that they both died and 
in hell, a place of torment, a place of 
suffering, the rich man lifted up his eyes 
being in torments and seeth Abraham afar 
off and Lazarus in his bosom, a place of 
happiness and rest, now in this lesson there 
are two very distinct truths taught, one is 
that the bad are in torments while the 
good are at rest, and the other truth is 
that all men will know each other in that 
world of spirits notwithstanding they are 
so diferent and changed in their conditions, 
the rich man knew Lazarus, whom he had 
seen, and he knew Abraham whom he had 
not known, on earth. Paul doubtless had 
this fact in view in 1st Cor. XIII- 12, 
where he says, "For now we see through 
a glass darkly but then face to face now 
I know in part but then shall I know even 



246 SCIENCE, THE BIBLE 

as also I am known," and there is another 
fact Jesus teaches in the above lesson and 
that is though far apart, mayhap as far 
as from one stellar world to another, yet 
they can see and converse with each other 
as if they were face to face. There was 
a time when by the people of this world 
this would have been hard to believe but 
not now, when with our modern telescopes 
we can see objects miles afar and sit down 
at a little instrument and talk with our 
friends hundreds of miles apart without 
the least strain of voice, under ordinary 
circumstances, the above would seem suf- 
ficient to satisfy all inquiring minds but 
when death comes unbidden into our 
homes and with cold and ruthless hands 
strikes down our loved ones, and we stand 
around their lifeless bodies with all the love 
and tenderness gone out of them, it is 
then we need a very strong foundation for 
our faith and hope. God knew this and in 
his love and mercy he has given it. 

Jesus says, "Let not your heart be 
troubled, ye believe in God, believe also 
in me, In my father's house are many 



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mansions if it were not so I would have 
told you, I go to prepare a place for you. 
And I will come again and take you to 
myself that where I am there ye, may be 
also." This tells us plainly where God's 
children are, they are with Jesus in the 
prepared mansions in the Father's house. 
And in Rev. VI-9, we read, "And when he 
had opened the fifth seal I saw under the 
altar the souls of them that were slain for 
the word of God and for the testimony 
which they held, 14. And white robes 
w T ere given unto every one of them, and it 
was said unto them that they should rest 
for a little season until their fellow servants 
also and their brethren that should be killed 
as they were should be fulfilled" and here 
we learn what our loved ones that have 
gone on before are doing they are just 
waiting and resting until w r e and the re- 
mainder of God's children get home and 
John says in Rev. VIII-9. "And after 
this I beheld and, Lo a great company 
which no man could number of all nations 
and kindred and peoples and tongues stood 
before the throne of God and the Lamb 



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clothed with white robes and palms in 
their hands verse 13. And one of the elders 
answering said unto me, what are these 
which are arrayed in white robes and 
whence come they. 14. And I said unto 
him sir thou knowest, and he said to me, 
these are they which came out of great 
tabulation and have washed their robes 
and made them white in the blood of the 
Lamb. 15. Therefore are they before the 
throne of God, and serve him day and 
night in his temple and he that sitteth on 
the throne shall dwell among them. 16. 
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst 
any more, neither shall the sun light on 
them nor any heat. 17. For the Lamb 
which is in the midst of the throne shall 
feed them and shall lead them unto living 
fountains of waters, and God shall wipe 
away all tears from their eyes." Rev. XX- 4. 
And I saw thrones and they sat upon 
them and Judgment was given unto them 
and I saw the souls of them that were 
beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for 
the word of God and which had not wor- 
shipped the beast neither his image, neither 



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had received his mark upon their foreheads 
or in their hands and they lived and reigned 
with Christ a thousand years and this 
describes the ending up of the present 
order of things. 

Man will have fulfilled the command of 
God to multiply and replenish the earth 
and subdue it. Man will have finished 
his education under the teaching of the 
revelation of divine truth and be ready to 
be graduated and be advanced to a higher 
and holier sphere of existence. Jesus will 
have destroyed all earthly kingdoms and 
completed the setting up of his own king- 
dom on earth, then he will return and take 
personal control of that kingdom, not as 
a meek and suffering savior, but as a great 
alwise omnipotent and glorious king. And 
he will have gathered all his people all 
that have ever loved and served him and 
have chosen him as their king and they 
will reign with him a thousand years. 
This reign will be to continue the education, 
growth and development of man to fully 
prepare him to take his final position to 
be God's superintendent and rule over the 



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work of his hands and when the thousand 
years are ended Satan is to be loosed 
when he will gather together all those 
disembodied spirits that have chosen his 
service and become his servants, Gog 
and Magog, with all his angels that fell 
with him when he fell, and surround the 
camp of the saints and the holy city and 
fire from heaven will devor them, that 
this is to be a spiritual battle. There 
can be no doubt for it is to take place 
after the resurrection of the saints then 
comes the judgment when all the dead 
shall be judged and whosoever is not found 
written in the book of life, with the devil 
and his angels will be sentenced and cast 
into the lake of fire. Then divine truth 
tells us there is to be a new heaven and a 
new earth, and God has prepared a beauti- 
ful City with its foundations of precious 
stones with its gates of pearl, its streets 
of gold and with its river and trees of 
life, and it is the wish and fervent prayer 
of the writer that you, dear reader and I, 
may so live that we, both, with our loved 



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ones, may be permitted to enter that 
beautiful City, and give to God the glory 
and praise forever for his glorious 
salvation. 




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